tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16972365762462765662016-09-07T22:32:40.122-06:00Tall House Quiltskcenya1950http://www.blogger.com/profile/04662054102040674321noreply@blogger.comBlogger128125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697236576246276566.post-891929196911340862012-01-22T12:33:00.006-07:002012-01-22T13:13:43.264-07:00It's rare<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">that one magazine is chock full of things I want to make but every once in a while it does happen. Like with this one.</span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C6dkWDuv1TU/TxxormfBiUI/AAAAAAAAC24/RKKuMWpoiYA/s1600/HPIM2343.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5700546326618540354" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C6dkWDuv1TU/TxxormfBiUI/AAAAAAAAC24/RKKuMWpoiYA/s320/HPIM2343.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I really like this one. And easy and scrappy, right. I have lots of scraps. But not the '30's fabrics like in the picture.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-siPvejTWXUA/TxxorjTAGqI/AAAAAAAAC2o/CUJ4KcShMOo/s1600/HPIM2344.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5700546325762808482" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-siPvejTWXUA/TxxorjTAGqI/AAAAAAAAC2o/CUJ4KcShMOo/s320/HPIM2344.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> So this is my version. Substitute fabrics in my normal colours and some <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Kona</span> tan -- yes, a solid, and here it is. I like how it turned out. It is pretty big -- you can see it is bigger than my design floor. So it will be a bear to quilt. Ahem, once it is sandwiched and pinned. Whenever that will be...<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Lw-AZ8tA-EA/TxxoehDmuGI/AAAAAAAAC2c/RdIZAW50jJU/s1600/HPIM2339.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5700546101823060066" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Lw-AZ8tA-EA/TxxoehDmuGI/AAAAAAAAC2c/RdIZAW50jJU/s320/HPIM2339.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Then there is this one. I love all of it but the appliqued leaves. They don't do much for me. But I love the turquoise added to fall colours. Even though I don't particularly own much turquoise. Being blue and all.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aETsSJb79f4/TxxoeKsY1PI/AAAAAAAAC2Q/91tnINWRjzQ/s1600/HPIM2346.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5700546095820100850" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aETsSJb79f4/TxxoeKsY1PI/AAAAAAAAC2Q/91tnINWRjzQ/s320/HPIM2346.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">So this is what I did. The leafy focus fabric had been hanging around for a while and is one that I really like. Rich jewel like colours in it. So I chose others, again many scraps. and ended up with this. Again I really like how it turned out. It, too, is awaiting sandwiching and pinning.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-v1g6liLWfAY/Txxod7j6hsI/AAAAAAAAC2A/tvQJinvPVSQ/s1600/HPIM2341.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5700546091758028482" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-v1g6liLWfAY/Txxod7j6hsI/AAAAAAAAC2A/tvQJinvPVSQ/s320/HPIM2341.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> And then there is this one. Tiny little bits.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FHaAm6_vpOk/TxxodyJ17hI/AAAAAAAAC10/6iaDgpDeWrQ/s1600/HPIM2345.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5700546089232756242" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FHaAm6_vpOk/TxxodyJ17hI/AAAAAAAAC10/6iaDgpDeWrQ/s320/HPIM2345.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> And it just so happens that I have lots and lots of the corners that were cut off from another project. So, ta <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">da</span>, here is my raw material. And the first few rows. This is a project I am working on in between others -- kind of like leaders and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">enders</span>. So it won't be finished for a while even at its small size.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gBdpsIVl30A/TxxodpyTpdI/AAAAAAAAC1s/Y3vFTytH9Sk/s1600/HPIM2342.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5700546086986556882" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gBdpsIVl30A/TxxodpyTpdI/AAAAAAAAC1s/Y3vFTytH9Sk/s320/HPIM2342.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> So what else have I been doing? This quilt started out as one of those stacks of fabric that look good together. But of course I didn't take a pic of the stack. The top is not together yet and I am considering borders. I think that the blue may be my choice! The lighter blue. That fabric is probably at least 25 years old. It is an old favourite. I had it in kind of a toast brown, too. But that one is all gone. Every once in a while I find a tiny bit of it. It makes me smile.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Pycvh7KPLkc/TxxmEKw25oI/AAAAAAAAC1c/9hVN_66cTP4/s1600/HPIM2352.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5700543450138994306" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Pycvh7KPLkc/TxxmEKw25oI/AAAAAAAAC1c/9hVN_66cTP4/s320/HPIM2352.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> So, speaking of really old, this is a nightgown like I wore when I was a teenager and in my twenties. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Lanz</span> of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">Salzburg</span>. This is actually one from those years. I have saved it thinking of using the flannel in something.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-S-LMttBgF1A/TxxmDnYu8GI/AAAAAAAAC1U/dMY2XEqosu4/s1600/HPIM2350.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5700543440642568290" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-S-LMttBgF1A/TxxmDnYu8GI/AAAAAAAAC1U/dMY2XEqosu4/s320/HPIM2350.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> At some point my MIL gave me a new one. A little pastel for my tastes. So I never wore it and at some point I gave up on these nightgowns. Too long ago to remember. Anyway, I decided to make these pajama pants out of the newer one. Let's you know how full those old gowns were because with some careful laying out I got all the pieces I needed with all the stripes even going the right direction. I had to show you the old one because of course I forgot to take a pic of this one before I had taken it all apart. Now I just need to remember how to sew clothing!<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OK93IP8-yiM/TxxmDTXIUGI/AAAAAAAAC1I/PuTEJ1tn4Z4/s1600/HPIM2349.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5700543435267133538" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OK93IP8-yiM/TxxmDTXIUGI/AAAAAAAAC1I/PuTEJ1tn4Z4/s320/HPIM2349.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> We live in a little neighbourhood full of older retired folks. That means estate sales are a pretty regular feature. I found both these bottles for $1 each. Don't you love the metal handle? I have a brown Borden's quart milk bottle, and now I have a bigger one. Milk tastes much different from a glass bottle I think. Almost drinkable. Almost.<br /><br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EoDPoBlpqQ0/TxxmDMtaMHI/AAAAAAAAC08/PPrQlKZKLj4/s1600/HPIM2347.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5700543433481531506" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EoDPoBlpqQ0/TxxmDMtaMHI/AAAAAAAAC08/PPrQlKZKLj4/s320/HPIM2347.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Then these were at the thrift store. They were hooked over what looked like asbestos trivets. Pretty stained as well, but now that they have been set free and soaked aren't they cool? I don't know what I will do with any of these finds but something will come of them I am sure.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yBlE9B0Wk9w/TxxmDDVGYSI/AAAAAAAAC0w/e5Ho9aMSUyY/s1600/HPIM2348.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5700543430963650850" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yBlE9B0Wk9w/TxxmDDVGYSI/AAAAAAAAC0w/e5Ho9aMSUyY/s320/HPIM2348.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> It's so hard to pay retail for decorative items when they are so inexpensive at the thrift store. Buying there leaves more funds for fabric. And that's a good thing.</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>kcenya1950http://www.blogger.com/profile/04662054102040674321noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697236576246276566.post-20311750183416794432011-12-24T11:42:00.008-07:002011-12-24T12:34:47.215-07:00Just in timeI am posting pics of some of my Christmas decorations. I had intended to get this post up early enough to join some of the link parties. Oh, well. In fact I had intended to post sooner than 6 weeks from the last post. Oh, well. So directly from Halloween to Christmas we go.<br /><br />This is one of my absolute favourite things I have ever found haunting the crafts gone bad aisle at the thrift store. Don't you love his wire ears -- like old wire coat hangers. With apologies to Joan Crawford I like them.<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-E0MiMqDN1Vs/TvYixooxH9I/AAAAAAAAC0k/agiAmWfu8YA/s1600/HPIM2330.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689773415346544594" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-E0MiMqDN1Vs/TvYixooxH9I/AAAAAAAAC0k/agiAmWfu8YA/s320/HPIM2330.JPG" /></a> Much of what I did this year I did like last year but some things are different and this is one area that is. The Santa sign was also thrifted. It is stick on letters, not paint, so it gives me hope that I, too, could make a wooden sign.<br /><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fZ1S7yD2neM/TvYixFLFnPI/AAAAAAAAC0c/pL3t99ORWp8/s1600/HPIM2328.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689773405826817266" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fZ1S7yD2neM/TvYixFLFnPI/AAAAAAAAC0c/pL3t99ORWp8/s320/HPIM2328.JPG" /></a> This is my mantle, or at least one end of it. I decided not to fight garland this year, so omitted it -- remember I am garland impaired. I like the patriotic bear with my own home made vaguely patriotic Santa against the flag background. I already have ideas how to add to this next year. Which I will probably forget by next year.....<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Vd-Csv1YHNk/TvYiw-rrYmI/AAAAAAAAC0I/lYKFV7HPGCs/s1600/HPIM2326.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689773404084462178" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Vd-Csv1YHNk/TvYiw-rrYmI/AAAAAAAAC0I/lYKFV7HPGCs/s320/HPIM2326.JPG" /></a> Here is the entire mantel. Yes, I have 3 of those bear angels. I just love them. Part of my idea for next year does away with the topiaries. While I love the tins they sit in, topiaries are just not me. I think they will go tinless into the spring neighbourhood garage sale.<br /><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KbR4-y2uW-k/TvYiw8I6HJI/AAAAAAAAC0A/bctOsFh7ty0/s1600/HPIM2324.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689773403401755794" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KbR4-y2uW-k/TvYiw8I6HJI/AAAAAAAAC0A/bctOsFh7ty0/s320/HPIM2324.JPG" /></a> Here is the wooden box with its winter lid. I thought the little snowgirl went well with it. The stocking, not so much, but it did fit the space. It, too is a thrifted find. I like it lesss now than when it was purchased. But that's the beauty of thrifting -- it is inexpensive to change your mind!</div><br /><div><br /><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8cNiPHjeX2w/TvYiV7JE1XI/AAAAAAAACz0/8dhptaQeX5s/s1600/HPIM2322.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689772939277555058" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8cNiPHjeX2w/TvYiV7JE1XI/AAAAAAAACz0/8dhptaQeX5s/s320/HPIM2322.JPG" /></a> </div><br /><div>This is actually quite different from it's usualy look. But I think I like the new look. Yes, another thrifted sign. You can pretty much figure that anything that is painted is thrifted because I have no artistic talent. Painting is definitely not my forte unless it is walls.<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-scWFLZ4MShs/TvYiVg-rDnI/AAAAAAAACzs/HS9bRdbBBQ8/s1600/HPIM2318.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689772932254600818" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-scWFLZ4MShs/TvYiVg-rDnI/AAAAAAAACzs/HS9bRdbBBQ8/s320/HPIM2318.JPG" /></a> A couple of new little Christmas quilts by the front door and tree. My love affair with yellow green is showing.<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8ME67BScCYs/TvYiVLVL7yI/AAAAAAAACzc/c66Oha4gwZQ/s1600/HPIM2315.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689772926443450146" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8ME67BScCYs/TvYiVLVL7yI/AAAAAAAACzc/c66Oha4gwZQ/s320/HPIM2315.JPG" /></a> Also by the front door. I was visiting some blogs via the link parties and one blogger was mentioning that she did not have much in the way of family things because her mother was not a saver. I can sure identify with that. My mother did not value anything old. But these little characters were hers and they go with some I have. She took them to the retirement community she lived in for her last several years so I was able to salvage them when she passed. This is there first visit to this shelf. I think it is a good fit.<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Bt5_dcvurEs/TvYiVFXbHjI/AAAAAAAACzM/pIOdjBQLp4M/s1600/HPIM2314.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689772924842221106" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Bt5_dcvurEs/TvYiVFXbHjI/AAAAAAAACzM/pIOdjBQLp4M/s320/HPIM2314.JPG" /></a><br />This little marble table/stand is under the shelf. It came from my in-laws. They were always making things out of other things and this is one of their creations. My MIL loved this piece of marble -- with its bold colour. I like it too, it just needs to go in a safe place out of traffic because running into those marble corners leaves big bruises!<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iBTLui-F62w/TvYiUzryeiI/AAAAAAAACzE/-pq8Z1Ls85c/s1600/HPIM2313.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689772920095799842" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iBTLui-F62w/TvYiUzryeiI/AAAAAAAACzE/-pq8Z1Ls85c/s320/HPIM2313.JPG" /></a> Since the tree goes by the front door in the dining room, the dining room gets is the main Christmas area. This is on the other side of the room. Don't you love the braided tree skirt? It came from Gooseberry Patch when they still had their catalog of stuff other than cookbooks. I wish they still did as they had so many cute things. It seems like an odd choice in the age of the internet recipe that you would make your business model only cookbooks. But what do I know? Anyway, I think the little tree skirt will stay out and become a table mat somewhere all year.<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FXLKDDZ4mk4/TvYhqqTNp5I/AAAAAAAACy4/1jmGft__7dU/s1600/HPIM2311.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689772196022298514" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FXLKDDZ4mk4/TvYhqqTNp5I/AAAAAAAACy4/1jmGft__7dU/s320/HPIM2311.JPG" /></a> Also in the dining room, another little shelf.<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hhtx231l0Hc/TvYhqYCCwvI/AAAAAAAACys/vUiFe4gfs-w/s1600/HPIM2308.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689772191118443250" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hhtx231l0Hc/TvYhqYCCwvI/AAAAAAAACys/vUiFe4gfs-w/s320/HPIM2308.JPG" /></a> The top of one of the cabinets Mr THQ built. This is a new little vignette. Both those sleds have been thrifted. They both would have been red but we ran out of red spray paint and it was so old we couldn't match the colour. So one became green. A lucky accident because they look good together paired in the traditional Christmas colours I think. And yes, I should have traded out that quilt for a Christmas one, but didn't think of it until everything was finished and the thought of one more trip of the ladder was a definite non-starter!<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5i8jbfhjHmk/TvYhqHoirBI/AAAAAAAACyg/4VRRkG1mM-A/s1600/HPIM2305.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689772186716515346" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5i8jbfhjHmk/TvYhqHoirBI/AAAAAAAACyg/4VRRkG1mM-A/s320/HPIM2305.JPG" /></a> The other cabinet he built that sits in the corner of the dining room. Mr THQ gave me the little Coke crate wagon a few Christmas's ago and it is a favourite.<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZhfPuQ6dRnk/TvYhp151CkI/AAAAAAAACyU/du-LD8yetgI/s1600/HPIM2306.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689772181957184066" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZhfPuQ6dRnk/TvYhp151CkI/AAAAAAAACyU/du-LD8yetgI/s320/HPIM2306.JPG" /></a> At last we move into the dining room table. I have noticed that lots of the bloggers on the link parties set their table for the holiday meal and then take that picture. I love to set the table so maybe I should do that. But I also love my box, my H O M E blocks, and my little fence. so it is hard to pass up making a new vignette for the table. <br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uquyZ5Lm6io/TvYhpvBSOsI/AAAAAAAACyI/R98A1vJ0118/s1600/HPIM2304.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689772180109408962" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uquyZ5Lm6io/TvYhpvBSOsI/AAAAAAAACyI/R98A1vJ0118/s320/HPIM2304.JPG" /></a> I have a baker's rack in the dining area of the kitchen that I don't usually take pics of because it is in front of a window and most of them come out very badly. In fact, the one I took of the higher shelves is just shadows. But this one of the bottom is okay. I changed this up a bit from normal. See that little chest? I was a doll clothes chest from when I was a kid. One of the few things I have. I refinished it years ago. It holds recipe clippings, coupons, little things like that now.<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6q2v6yywgiU/TvYg0eiicZI/AAAAAAAACyA/IX9xVk6uz5Y/s1600/HPIM2333.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689771265152414098" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6q2v6yywgiU/TvYg0eiicZI/AAAAAAAACyA/IX9xVk6uz5Y/s320/HPIM2333.JPG" /></a> Over the cabinets in the eating area. I really love this little tree. It is really the top from a long gone artificial tree. I like my little gingerbread baking corner, too, although I think next year I will expand it further across the top -- maybe both corners.<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Iz6p-mhAbKo/TvYg0ISPcDI/AAAAAAAACxw/boF4LQV3eJA/s1600/HPIM2335.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689771259178479666" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Iz6p-mhAbKo/TvYg0ISPcDI/AAAAAAAACxw/boF4LQV3eJA/s320/HPIM2335.JPG" /></a> Another little tree. Most of the ornaments came from my LQS a nubmer of years back. They all have an old fashioned look to me. <br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oJGXHYRJwzs/TvYgz5GRdNI/AAAAAAAACxk/oqXlvjMVueg/s1600/HPIM2329.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689771255101748434" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oJGXHYRJwzs/TvYgz5GRdNI/AAAAAAAACxk/oqXlvjMVueg/s320/HPIM2329.JPG" /></a> And for the finale a couple of shots of the tree. I took these pics on a really cloudy day because that is all we had for a while, so they are a little dark. I love to fill my tree with lots of things, many hand made (some even hand made by me). Basically no traditional Christmas balls. I like it to be really full, too. but no "kissies." This view is coming down the hall from the laundry room and garage, taken from the kitchen door.<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-crEtm--o3VA/TvYgzg6GJwI/AAAAAAAACxY/2xIg5VeKOFA/s1600/HPIM2337.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689771248608225026" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-crEtm--o3VA/TvYgzg6GJwI/AAAAAAAACxY/2xIg5VeKOFA/s320/HPIM2337.JPG" /></a> This view is a bit brighter. It's the view from the front door. It is the "front" of the tree to me so it is the side with my favourite ornaments.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D8WgZHbFA0Q/TvYgzRjkfmI/AAAAAAAACxM/5qeWEMKWZP4/s1600/HPIM2338.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689771244487212642" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D8WgZHbFA0Q/TvYgzRjkfmI/AAAAAAAACxM/5qeWEMKWZP4/s320/HPIM2338.JPG" /></a> Well, that's the tour. Here is the part where I make all the normal promises about getting back to posting on a regular basis. And I mean it, too. Really. The intentions are good. Now maybe the reality will match.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Merry Christmas.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>kcenya1950http://www.blogger.com/profile/04662054102040674321noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697236576246276566.post-35637371650300555602011-10-29T06:57:00.010-06:002011-10-29T08:58:12.496-06:00Gaposis<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">That's what my mother called that open gap between the buttons just in the wrong place on a button up blouse. I never wear button up blouses because of that gap. </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">So I have been suffering from blog <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">gaposis</span>. It has been awhile. I have the usual excuses -- busy, blah, blah, real life, blah, blah, etc. But I am back, so let's get on with the show. I still have lots of quilt show photos but since I have actually both decorated for fall and Halloween and completed some quilts I thought I would start with me, me, me.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">So, let's start with decorations first. I think this little bear came from Avon a number of years ago. </span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PcRMQ-7WcOE/TqwKv-KR6iI/AAAAAAAACxA/tFzqvKVyNyw/s1600/HPIM2303.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668917850208856610" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PcRMQ-7WcOE/TqwKv-KR6iI/AAAAAAAACxA/tFzqvKVyNyw/s320/HPIM2303.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> The sunflower box top didn't come with the box when I got it but I found it <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">thrifting</span> not to long ago and while it is not an exact fit it won't fall off and covers the box opening. I love the little orange <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">witchy</span> bear -- I have had him for a long time.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WUaziHtJ-GM/TqwKvoAftCI/AAAAAAAACw0/X-kdqOvq7HU/s1600/HPIM2302.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668917844262237218" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WUaziHtJ-GM/TqwKvoAftCI/AAAAAAAACw0/X-kdqOvq7HU/s320/HPIM2302.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> At Art in the Park, an annual festival here in Boise a woman always sells lots of little quilts like this one with various shapes. After we first moved here and I saw them I made this copy cat. I have a heart one for Valentine's day, too. This is its first year in this spot and I kind of like it. <br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hIkdxZrWY5M/TqwKvDKdkxI/AAAAAAAACws/4Fq43yDUip0/s1600/HPIM2301.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668917834371928850" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hIkdxZrWY5M/TqwKvDKdkxI/AAAAAAAACws/4Fq43yDUip0/s320/HPIM2301.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Do you always put your holiday decorations in the same places every year? I do on the ones I really like -- in fact I look back at pictures. But some things roam. This little scarecrow always goes right here. I love the witch wooden thing-- I think I found it in the crafts gone bad aisle at <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Deseret</span> last year and I think this is where I put her last year. I really like her. She stays out in my sewing room all year long.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TShTVxspxyM/TqwKu4qKr2I/AAAAAAAACwc/xEvgFFZMWyw/s1600/HPIM2300.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668917831552118626" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TShTVxspxyM/TqwKu4qKr2I/AAAAAAAACwc/xEvgFFZMWyw/s320/HPIM2300.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I don't know if I really like these gourds. Like the colours, but, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">meh</span>. This is a new spot for them and I am not sure the new scenery improved them.<br /></span><br /><div><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-If7Mq0lwYcA/TqwKTtcVzHI/AAAAAAAACwE/BEoZGAlaBxg/s1600/HPIM2299.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668917364684868722" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-If7Mq0lwYcA/TqwKTtcVzHI/AAAAAAAACwE/BEoZGAlaBxg/s320/HPIM2299.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> This area is ordinarily kind of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">fallish</span> in its look. I like the little white pumpkin against the black.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FHhJa4KOBjg/TqwKTYLxuXI/AAAAAAAACv0/_EOKIqEH5Jg/s1600/HPIM2298.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668917358978251122" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FHhJa4KOBjg/TqwKTYLxuXI/AAAAAAAACv0/_EOKIqEH5Jg/s320/HPIM2298.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I have more table runners than I have tables so I just added these to this basket 'o quilts. I certainly have way more quilts than beds, and walls, and shelves, and...<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Q3073XA9kxA/TqwKTdBITbI/AAAAAAAACvs/XYFoJ1sba4M/s1600/HPIM2297.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668917360275770802" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Q3073XA9kxA/TqwKTdBITbI/AAAAAAAACvs/XYFoJ1sba4M/s320/HPIM2297.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> My dining room table. I forgot to get that runner thrown over the chair put away before I took the pic. Oh, well.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-baj7arQVsf8/TqwJxbDyBnI/AAAAAAAACvg/hYz7Q8P1n3A/s1600/HPIM2295.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668916775634470514" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-baj7arQVsf8/TqwJxbDyBnI/AAAAAAAACvg/hYz7Q8P1n3A/s320/HPIM2295.JPG" /></span></a> <br /><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Fall mantle.<br /></span><br /><div><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QWCj_08HAA8/TqwJwZXQ4yI/AAAAAAAACvA/k8fGC7qHjLE/s1600/HPIM2293.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668916757999444770" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QWCj_08HAA8/TqwJwZXQ4yI/AAAAAAAACvA/k8fGC7qHjLE/s320/HPIM2293.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I've had this little ghost pillow longer than my <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">daughter</span> is old. He is in pretty remarkable shape for hitting his '40's, don't you think? Even still pretty white.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SIcotNCPiy4/TqwJwK9_9tI/AAAAAAAACuw/JzKVguxH-a0/s1600/HPIM2292.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668916754135381714" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SIcotNCPiy4/TqwJwK9_9tI/AAAAAAAACuw/JzKVguxH-a0/s320/HPIM2292.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Have done a bit of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">thrifting</span> during my absence. Not as much as I usually do because, blah, blah, blah, but here is a small sample. Love the Santa pattern. Now if I would just make some of these doll patterns.<br /></span><br /><div><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Dxwa0Y5mXAQ/TqwJJxI8oCI/AAAAAAAACuY/5VKCvV1sE_w/s1600/HPIM2270.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668916094366949410" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Dxwa0Y5mXAQ/TqwJJxI8oCI/AAAAAAAACuY/5VKCvV1sE_w/s320/HPIM2270.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> As I said, I have some finishes to share. A friend gave me the new <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">Whimsicals</span> panel a few months ago. I didn't want to make a full sized quilt so I made mini quilts from the bits. Here is <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">Krackle</span> Kitty.</span></div><br /><div><br /><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rtjyCXmpbTE/TqwJJll1kjI/AAAAAAAACuI/OC5x8_dkoo0/s1600/HPIM2274.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668916091266896434" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rtjyCXmpbTE/TqwJJll1kjI/AAAAAAAACuI/OC5x8_dkoo0/s320/HPIM2274.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I gave this one to the friend who gave me the panel because the poinsettias made me think of her. It ended up in a local quilt shop as a sample for a while. Happy, happy, now I am a quilt shop recognized designer and a published author. :-D No, authorship has nothing to do with quilting but does have something to do with <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-error">gaposis</span>.</span></div><br /><div><br /><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gpqvLH2-g70/TqwJJLAB6II/AAAAAAAACuA/DGQIlvSkXic/s1600/HPIM2273.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668916084128999554" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gpqvLH2-g70/TqwJJLAB6II/AAAAAAAACuA/DGQIlvSkXic/s320/HPIM2273.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I really like how this one came out.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QC8SRMB8wpU/TqwJIxdOzAI/AAAAAAAACtw/ZEq4zpkZjps/s1600/HPIM2291.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668916077272157186" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QC8SRMB8wpU/TqwJIxdOzAI/AAAAAAAACtw/ZEq4zpkZjps/s320/HPIM2291.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> And I really really like how this one came out. Even if it is basically blue.</span></div><br /><div><br /><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wGaTqzNXeo4/TqwIocUhayI/AAAAAAAACtg/gQuYhxTmGVA/s1600/HPIM2290.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668915521842670370" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wGaTqzNXeo4/TqwIocUhayI/AAAAAAAACtg/gQuYhxTmGVA/s320/HPIM2290.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> So what else have I been working on? I love this back even if it was just a way to make enough of the checkered fabric.</span></div><br /><div><br /><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-i_YlOkOyshw/TqwIn5AV5RI/AAAAAAAACtY/oiCszU4zpYo/s1600/HPIM2288.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668915512362788114" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-i_YlOkOyshw/TqwIn5AV5RI/AAAAAAAACtY/oiCszU4zpYo/s320/HPIM2288.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Here is the front. It was a panel and a kit from the Gathering Place in Rupert that I bought at a quilt show a few years ago. And I pretty much used the fabrics that came in the kit. <br /><br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hF5jX4X-REU/TqwInNGowHI/AAAAAAAACtQ/lgW2tErfMnw/s1600/HPIM2286.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668915500578029682" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hF5jX4X-REU/TqwInNGowHI/AAAAAAAACtQ/lgW2tErfMnw/s320/HPIM2286.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I made two alike except for the fabric choices. The pattern is by <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-error">Malka</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-error">Dubrawsky</span> called Fish Baby Log Cabin. I think I found it on Sew, Baby, Sew, but am not sure. Hers is bigger and in solids but I really liked the concept. I love, love, love how this one came out. Mr <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_13" class="blsp-spelling-error">THQ</span> likes the chicken fabric.<br /><br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-F38HEJnepQw/TqwIm4SMceI/AAAAAAAACtA/v7oQPJ4GAu0/s1600/HPIM2285.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668915494989361634" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-F38HEJnepQw/TqwIm4SMceI/AAAAAAAACtA/v7oQPJ4GAu0/s320/HPIM2285.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> And here is my fall version. You already saw part of it because it is on my dining room table right this minute being <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_14" class="blsp-spelling-error">fallish</span>.<br /><br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mmFG3Rz6vm0/TqwImqK_jRI/AAAAAAAACs0/LQdd4QGAKaQ/s1600/HPIM2284.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668915491201060114" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mmFG3Rz6vm0/TqwImqK_jRI/AAAAAAAACs0/LQdd4QGAKaQ/s320/HPIM2284.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Then I have some "modern" quilts, unlike what I normally do. Here is a bright one. I am currently madly in love with chartreuse right now. Thinking back I have always like it I think. When I was in junior high and those huge mohair cable sweaters were in style I saved up baby sitting money and bought one in chartreuse that I wore and wore until it was just a lump of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_15" class="blsp-spelling-error">pilled</span> threads.<br /><br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1aadtPafheU/TqwHvXXU7ZI/AAAAAAAACso/PfG3R3NFt_E/s1600/HPIM2282.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668914541259713938" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1aadtPafheU/TqwHvXXU7ZI/AAAAAAAACso/PfG3R3NFt_E/s320/HPIM2282.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Not so modern here, I used up fat quarters. I have a fall one like this, too, but it is not quilted yet. Or even pinned. It will have to wait for next year I guess, but this one is ready for Christmas. I like it <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_16" class="blsp-spelling-error">a lot</span>, too. I looked for all my kind of darkened reds and greens. Lots of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_17" class="blsp-spelling-error">Thimbleberries</span> here. I really like the black dots on the ivory background squares. I love it when I love a finished quilt, don't you?<br /><br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-C9dzWez1q_A/TqwHu8iahII/AAAAAAAACsg/FYyqnHFHTrU/s1600/HPIM2280.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668914534058460290" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-C9dzWez1q_A/TqwHu8iahII/AAAAAAAACsg/FYyqnHFHTrU/s320/HPIM2280.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> And another modern one. I am showing you the back to prove that you should use no fabric before its time. I have had this VIP print since the late '70's or early '80's. I had it in blue that you have seen on other backs I think (it was in my blue phase) but I have always loved this colour way and it is the perfect back here, don't you think?<br /><br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0U40U56zM-I/TqwHuc3sMCI/AAAAAAAACsQ/YcxKriwSjkE/s1600/HPIM2279.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668914525557764130" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0U40U56zM-I/TqwHuc3sMCI/AAAAAAAACsQ/YcxKriwSjkE/s320/HPIM2279.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> This is a colour study from a blog called In Colour Order I think. I had fun using brights. And look at my binding... yup, that green again.<br /><br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nM3m_ueKK-M/TqwHuEviGKI/AAAAAAAACsE/JW5sBqmY5zM/s1600/HPIM2277.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668914519081097378" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nM3m_ueKK-M/TqwHuEviGKI/AAAAAAAACsE/JW5sBqmY5zM/s320/HPIM2277.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> When my daughter still lived at home way back when Mr <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_18" class="blsp-spelling-error">THQ</span> who did all the laundry used to complain that all our clothes were the same and all blue-green-purple. That's what he said when he saw this quilt. But there is only the tiniest smidgen of blue on it. This is not at all what I usually do but I fell in love with that kind of blue green fabric with the thistles and ended up buying a fat quarter stack of the line. And bonus, it has that green in it.</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h-PBeMGAJ2Q/TqwHtyejvkI/AAAAAAAACr4/k9b0HWqKkK8/s1600/HPIM2275.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668914514178063938" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h-PBeMGAJ2Q/TqwHtyejvkI/AAAAAAAACr4/k9b0HWqKkK8/s320/HPIM2275.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Well, back with a vengeance, don't you think? <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_19" class="blsp-spelling-error">Lotsa</span> pictures. I am not going to make a promise I might not keep as to how soon I will be back, but I will be back, that I can promise. Still have lots of quilt show pics to share, some works in progress, and other stuff, but have more traveling coming up and that often gets in the way. </span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Hope not everyone has given up on me and that you are still out there......</span></div><br /><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>kcenya1950http://www.blogger.com/profile/04662054102040674321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697236576246276566.post-82064000677180140672011-08-14T09:00:00.008-06:002011-08-14T09:27:38.385-06:00I took a lot of pictures at the Boise show,<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">now, didn't I? Are you tired of them yet? I hope not. I just need to increase my posting frequency to get them all up. </span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">You might not be able to tell but this is one of those picture tapestries that</span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N9mSSCy_180/Tkfl9VmCvRI/AAAAAAAACrw/GAYZgsbcNFA/s1600/HPIM2129.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5640729900236324114" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N9mSSCy_180/Tkfl9VmCvRI/AAAAAAAACrw/GAYZgsbcNFA/s320/HPIM2129.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> was incorporated into a quilt. Really cool. Hard to tell in the pics but what a great idea! Especially for those of us who are not applique stars.
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<br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-E9wk7FOJQt8/Tkfl9LQqjjI/AAAAAAAACro/Xf7TEe3aqlA/s1600/HPIM2128.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5640729897462304306" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-E9wk7FOJQt8/Tkfl9LQqjjI/AAAAAAAACro/Xf7TEe3aqlA/s320/HPIM2128.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I thought this was really a nice quilt. Some details and then the entire thing. I like the colour choices. I even like the butterflies although I am not generally a butterfly fan.
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<br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BNLole9GjGU/Tkfl9GIE3hI/AAAAAAAACrg/JBuMYpzFGTg/s1600/HPIM2127.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5640729896084102674" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BNLole9GjGU/Tkfl9GIE3hI/AAAAAAAACrg/JBuMYpzFGTg/s320/HPIM2127.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Look at this bottom row. Cute, cute, cute.
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<br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XvBnzPNnN68/Tkfl8wmcfdI/AAAAAAAACrY/G26FIYvQ3E4/s1600/HPIM2125.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5640729890305899986" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XvBnzPNnN68/Tkfl8wmcfdI/AAAAAAAACrY/G26FIYvQ3E4/s320/HPIM2125.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> And houses, too. I have never made a row by row quilt. I don't know why. I generally like them.
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<br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rjqzhWqC3DI/Tkfl8Rtl8YI/AAAAAAAACrQ/OVOO8UM08Vc/s1600/HPIM2126.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5640729882014380418" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rjqzhWqC3DI/Tkfl8Rtl8YI/AAAAAAAACrQ/OVOO8UM08Vc/s320/HPIM2126.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Okay, here is the whole thing.
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<br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKO_wMNm4Ds/TkflVDoYUHI/AAAAAAAACrI/5u5GWCN5ezE/s1600/HPIM2124.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5640729208219521138" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKO_wMNm4Ds/TkflVDoYUHI/AAAAAAAACrI/5u5GWCN5ezE/s320/HPIM2124.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> How about this <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">red work</span> one? It has houses and you know I am a sucker for houses. Oh, chickens, too. I just noticed.
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<br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-48hrOzdox6c/TkflVMPfU4I/AAAAAAAACrA/4FILmOgmw8k/s1600/HPIM2123.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5640729210531042178" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-48hrOzdox6c/TkflVMPfU4I/AAAAAAAACrA/4FILmOgmw8k/s320/HPIM2123.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Not sure why I have this photo. Probably because it is a simple scrappy block.
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<br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iZqBPxgJ46o/TkflU1UfIRI/AAAAAAAACq4/iZAgIFATDkA/s1600/HPIM2122.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5640729204377985298" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iZqBPxgJ46o/TkflU1UfIRI/AAAAAAAACq4/iZAgIFATDkA/s320/HPIM2122.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Bright sampler. I really like a couple of the blocks.
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<br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8wQFdgDPtwI/TkflUrBSqRI/AAAAAAAACqw/CGE1swvcoJg/s1600/HPIM2121.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5640729201613121810" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8wQFdgDPtwI/TkflUrBSqRI/AAAAAAAACqw/CGE1swvcoJg/s320/HPIM2121.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I have this pattern, have made the backgrounds, and collected the oranges. I love all of it but the top row. Time to haul it out and make it. I can omit the top row, right? I think I don't like it because it's pretty traditional and the rest of the blocks are a bit whimsical and I love whimsical.
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<br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DEc8QhRGbCI/TkflUiYw5bI/AAAAAAAACqo/DpKMjAmZp44/s1600/HPIM2120.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5640729199295653298" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DEc8QhRGbCI/TkflUiYw5bI/AAAAAAAACqo/DpKMjAmZp44/s320/HPIM2120.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Favourite block, bright colours. What's not to like?
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<br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4gnbUQB3QQw/TkfkoqTZHgI/AAAAAAAACqg/PANAX9Y3EHc/s1600/HPIM2118.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5640728445506362882" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4gnbUQB3QQw/TkfkoqTZHgI/AAAAAAAACqg/PANAX9Y3EHc/s320/HPIM2118.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> This was the featured quilter. She also owns a shop in a town an hour or so away. She does <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">a lot</span> with folded log cabin. I love the way they look and she sells kits but they are pretty <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">spendy</span>. Need to get to her shop. Her booths are always great at shows. First up is this flag. Really cool I think.
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<br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5PYfHGJrTK4/TkfkorX2UFI/AAAAAAAACqY/5WkxLYj7m4Q/s1600/HPIM2117.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5640728445793488978" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5PYfHGJrTK4/TkfkorX2UFI/AAAAAAAACqY/5WkxLYj7m4Q/s320/HPIM2117.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Houses -- at the beach.
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<br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-G--WRFh9_rY/TkfkoaF7alI/AAAAAAAACqQ/W_0lBLjxbZM/s1600/HPIM2116.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5640728441154923090" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-G--WRFh9_rY/TkfkoaF7alI/AAAAAAAACqQ/W_0lBLjxbZM/s320/HPIM2116.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I adore this one with the hearts. I love the colours. It was one of those <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">spendy</span> kits. Didn't come home with me.
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<br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2MC7XW4hVJ8/TkfkoYk8pgI/AAAAAAAACqI/RcixWR8N4EM/s1600/HPIM2115.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5640728440748156418" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2MC7XW4hVJ8/TkfkoYk8pgI/AAAAAAAACqI/RcixWR8N4EM/s320/HPIM2115.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Another of hers.
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<br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-S6v28wgTDnI/TkfkoFenm4I/AAAAAAAACqA/-tpo6OaGzWg/s1600/HPIM2114.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5640728435621337986" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-S6v28wgTDnI/TkfkoFenm4I/AAAAAAAACqA/-tpo6OaGzWg/s320/HPIM2114.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> More patriotic. I have seen something similar to this in a magazine I think.
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<br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9z4EIYZRCLg/Tkfj2qsLilI/AAAAAAAACp4/dCq6LSeClqw/s1600/HPIM2112.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5640727586616871506" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9z4EIYZRCLg/Tkfj2qsLilI/AAAAAAAACp4/dCq6LSeClqw/s320/HPIM2112.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Here is a closer view of the center. I always like it when other people use backgrounds that are kind of busy but I never like it when I do it. Weird, huh?
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<br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OYZMNjY8mKA/Tkfj2pVMA3I/AAAAAAAACpw/FRFEhGvaWtA/s1600/HPIM2113.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5640727586251998066" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OYZMNjY8mKA/Tkfj2pVMA3I/AAAAAAAACpw/FRFEhGvaWtA/s320/HPIM2113.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> This was last year's raffle quilt but done in different colours. There was one at the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">Kuna</span> show that you will eventually see, too. I guess I just really like this quilt as I take pics of it every time I see it no matter what the colour way. It's the sunflowers I guess.
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<br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-g-2xOEWRtNg/Tkfj2cXxuQI/AAAAAAAACpo/vSF0BZEIh50/s1600/HPIM2111.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5640727582773197058" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-g-2xOEWRtNg/Tkfj2cXxuQI/AAAAAAAACpo/vSF0BZEIh50/s320/HPIM2111.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I like these tied flower bundles, too. I just could never do the applique even with blanket stitch and fusible. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">There </span>is so much and so much that is small.
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<br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YqO6nQjFhx4/Tkfj1U3VaJI/AAAAAAAACpg/jVJ2GBapb5Y/s1600/HPIM2110.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5640727563578206354" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YqO6nQjFhx4/Tkfj1U3VaJI/AAAAAAAACpg/jVJ2GBapb5Y/s320/HPIM2110.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Gotta love the birdhouses.
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<br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CpLTW_rdIpI/Tkfj1W4jZ5I/AAAAAAAACpY/z9k85tSoS3w/s1600/HPIM2109.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5640727564120188818" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CpLTW_rdIpI/Tkfj1W4jZ5I/AAAAAAAACpY/z9k85tSoS3w/s320/HPIM2109.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Well, still more to go but I didn't want to load up too many pics. I will truly try to be back sooner. Just so much to</span> do!</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br />kcenya1950http://www.blogger.com/profile/04662054102040674321noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697236576246276566.post-37275387918698765652011-08-04T14:11:00.008-06:002011-08-04T14:47:44.452-06:00Before we get back to the show<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I thought I would share what I am doing right now. Do you like this mess? My scrap tote (see it there, the clear one) got too full to close so I decided that I would take the scraps that are outside my "normal" style and put them in another spot. In this case the white tote that of course had to be emptied of its contents first. So I got started. One thing I discovered is that I have been saving way too many scraps that are totally too small to be usable. So from now on no strips less than 1" and no scraps smaller than 1 1/2" square. That's probably still too small but I have to start letting go somewhere. I am just way too much of a P A C K R A T!</span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iPUiZp7Ah-w/TjsA0vBtdlI/AAAAAAAACpQ/yChChxA4Vp8/s1600/HPIM2175.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637100264561145426" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iPUiZp7Ah-w/TjsA0vBtdlI/AAAAAAAACpQ/yChChxA4Vp8/s320/HPIM2175.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Now on to the show. I love the fabrics and colours in this quilt so much that I have several close up blocks as well as the quilt. Apparently it was a kit at a shop a few towns away from me. One of these days I will take pics of the bathroom off my quilting room. It is my only cottage-y room and is mainly pink and green, like this quilt. </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">This block is pretty even though it has friendship stars in it. I love stars but of the Ohio variety, not the friendship variety. Weird, isn't it?<br /></span><br /><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-q-4qa-MMqO8/TjsAXmUuBTI/AAAAAAAACpI/7rnhGL0R8CQ/s1600/HPIM2108.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637099764008748338" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-q-4qa-MMqO8/TjsAXmUuBTI/AAAAAAAACpI/7rnhGL0R8CQ/s320/HPIM2108.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I love the fabric combination in this one. I love the plaid and the check. <br /></span><br /><div><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w6HpcjkSGYc/Tjr_zvW1aUI/AAAAAAAACo4/b3m6Jse6xn4/s1600/HPIM2107.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637099147958249794" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w6HpcjkSGYc/Tjr_zvW1aUI/AAAAAAAACo4/b3m6Jse6xn4/s320/HPIM2107.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Here's a little bigger view so you can see the cornerstones -- stars. I have never done that. I really like it. Of course they have those tight angles but on the end of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">sashing</span> it would be pretty easy to do I think.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7iiOa8CN32s/Tjr_zYJwRrI/AAAAAAAACow/ivv1Kf_6Wg8/s1600/HPIM2106.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637099141729371826" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7iiOa8CN32s/Tjr_zYJwRrI/AAAAAAAACow/ivv1Kf_6Wg8/s320/HPIM2106.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Here is the whole quilt.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jcS1yopZiLo/Tjr_zFgBBWI/AAAAAAAACoo/-AHGkYJOyhc/s1600/HPIM2105.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637099136722470242" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jcS1yopZiLo/Tjr_zFgBBWI/AAAAAAAACoo/-AHGkYJOyhc/s320/HPIM2105.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I love the colours in this one. And the border print. Very french country, don't you <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">think</span>? Once upon a time my style was french country. <br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xTal21qVNtM/Tjr_y11wIbI/AAAAAAAACog/yH9FrUTDzRM/s1600/HPIM2104.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637099132518670770" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xTal21qVNtM/Tjr_y11wIbI/AAAAAAAACog/yH9FrUTDzRM/s320/HPIM2104.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />I have the book with this pattern. I really like it and maybe someday I will make it. <br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-o0HQ0-DwPp4/Tjr_yj3JYGI/AAAAAAAACoY/Fz6FAJZmyU0/s1600/HPIM2103.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637099127692681314" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-o0HQ0-DwPp4/Tjr_yj3JYGI/AAAAAAAACoY/Fz6FAJZmyU0/s320/HPIM2103.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Here is the whole thing. Another interesting border fabric.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gHRJ2wMqx8A/Tjr-4QfXG2I/AAAAAAAACoQ/zm_zvROONA8/s1600/HPIM2102.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637098126060231522" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gHRJ2wMqx8A/Tjr-4QfXG2I/AAAAAAAACoQ/zm_zvROONA8/s320/HPIM2102.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Look at this <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">colour wheel</span>. Cool, yes? I love the grey scale blocks on the top and the black and white on the bottom, Oh, and the wheel itself, too. Just really like it a lot.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hhUDzg3zM90/Tjr-4E_utLI/AAAAAAAACoI/An4ODIm0DHs/s1600/HPIM2101.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637098122974770354" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hhUDzg3zM90/Tjr-4E_utLI/AAAAAAAACoI/An4ODIm0DHs/s320/HPIM2101.JPG" /></span></a> <br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dFAigU7E1Nk/Tjr-4FBY7sI/AAAAAAAACoA/BoIM1_BIRCI/s1600/HPIM2100.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637098122981732034" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dFAigU7E1Nk/Tjr-4FBY7sI/AAAAAAAACoA/BoIM1_BIRCI/s320/HPIM2100.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Interesting pictorial and I love the quilts on the line above. And the border on this one, too. Kind of like a frame.</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">This is the end of a happy table runner.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-amQBVuQVKJ0/Tjr-37s9omI/AAAAAAAACn4/d_TgIBLpRNg/s1600/HPIM2099.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637098120480137826" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-amQBVuQVKJ0/Tjr-37s9omI/AAAAAAAACn4/d_TgIBLpRNg/s320/HPIM2099.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> See, happy colours and happy fabrics.<br /><br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JR79Cp9ER0I/Tjr-3g4WGyI/AAAAAAAACnw/t5WANbeVOQU/s1600/HPIM2098.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637098113280121634" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JR79Cp9ER0I/Tjr-3g4WGyI/AAAAAAAACnw/t5WANbeVOQU/s320/HPIM2098.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Curvy log cabins. In rainbow colours. Love the purple and green together. Once a long long time ago I read an article that said you should never go on a job interview wearing green or purple if you wanted to get the job. I can't remember why but I have always remembered that. Seems so unfair to pick on too perfectly good colours. I have hired people who wore purple or green. But maybe I am the exception that proves the rule!<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9N3_QLsGJGM/Tjr-IbJS9-I/AAAAAAAACno/dhOh-_LO7Os/s1600/HPIM2097.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637097304286754786" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9N3_QLsGJGM/Tjr-IbJS9-I/AAAAAAAACno/dhOh-_LO7Os/s320/HPIM2097.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Here is the whole quilt. Don't you love how the colours streak through it?<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GsB9CgVraWQ/Tjr-IOvXC1I/AAAAAAAACng/KUrnWqugSK8/s1600/HPIM2096.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637097300956744530" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GsB9CgVraWQ/Tjr-IOvXC1I/AAAAAAAACng/KUrnWqugSK8/s320/HPIM2096.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> There were a lot of versions of this quilt and you will get to see a bunch more on another day. But I love this one both colours and I love the curvy border treatment. And the stripe next to the graphic dotty fabric is just a phenomenal combo I think.</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">A local quilter has <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">written</span> a book on curved piecing and teaches classes. When I first heard about it I didn't think I was interested but seeming some of these quilts, and I think this one is hers, I am reconsidering.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WcZDteFuz8o/Tjr-H4Dzd6I/AAAAAAAACnY/0N7GEASQWIM/s1600/HPIM2153.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637097294868477858" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WcZDteFuz8o/Tjr-H4Dzd6I/AAAAAAAACnY/0N7GEASQWIM/s320/HPIM2153.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> The other corner. Since I am short I could only take pics of the bottom corners so you just get two.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2MsiKWDV3Qo/Tjr-Hq9BxFI/AAAAAAAACnQ/dk-YPOriack/s1600/HPIM2095.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637097291350393938" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2MsiKWDV3Qo/Tjr-Hq9BxFI/AAAAAAAACnQ/dk-YPOriack/s320/HPIM2095.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Here is the whole thing. Don't you love the curvy framing around each block? And the colours? <br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jqep8kk9MbA/Tjr-Hm-hRtI/AAAAAAAACnI/2CRUHQKzalw/s1600/HPIM2094.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637097290282911442" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jqep8kk9MbA/Tjr-Hm-hRtI/AAAAAAAACnI/2CRUHQKzalw/s320/HPIM2094.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> That's all for today. I will be back as soon as I can with more. And then there will be <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">Kuna</span>. Oh how I love quilt show season!<br /><br /></span><br /><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>kcenya1950http://www.blogger.com/profile/04662054102040674321noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697236576246276566.post-9740929911474566072011-07-29T13:00:00.007-06:002011-07-29T14:14:15.078-06:00How about some Boise quilt show pics?<span style="font-family:times new roman;">Riddle me this -- when you accidentally load the same pic twice it is really difficult to find the right key combination to delete it. But when you want a picture it is <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">soooooooooooo</span> easy to do whatever it is that deletes it. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Grrr</span>.</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">But I digress before I even get started. Since it is only a week away from the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Kuna</span> show I figured we better start looking at pics from the Boise show held at the end of June.</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">This first one is blue, I know, but it is really pretty. And you know I love this block. And I love the scalloped border. I will have to try that I guess. (And yes, it adds insult to injury that the pic that I accidentally deleted and had to reload was blue!)</span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xT8hOyamfBM/TjMSB694H-I/AAAAAAAACnA/_MW_GpO6llE/s1600/HPIM2090.JPG"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634867382988578786" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xT8hOyamfBM/TjMSB694H-I/AAAAAAAACnA/_MW_GpO6llE/s320/HPIM2090.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> I am not a fan of batiks but I really like the block in this quilt. Besides it is Boise State colours.<br /></span><br /><div><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KakURDNNJ_o/TjMRapHgRvI/AAAAAAAACmw/yUb5BzcHKaA/s1600/HPIM2093.JPG"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634866708182222578" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KakURDNNJ_o/TjMRapHgRvI/AAAAAAAACmw/yUb5BzcHKaA/s320/HPIM2093.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> Here is the whole thing.<br /><br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PcMj6huMqzU/TjMQ7GBP6mI/AAAAAAAACmo/2YOFakaJTq8/s1600/HPIM2091.JPG"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634866166184798818" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PcMj6huMqzU/TjMQ7GBP6mI/AAAAAAAACmo/2YOFakaJTq8/s320/HPIM2091.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> And here is another block close up. Isn't it interesting? And actually, now that I stare at this block, the quilt is not really batiks is it? Just has that look. And lots of those taupe Japanese fabrics or Japanese like fabrics. I stand corrected.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-okNi3qGsdwo/TjMQ67uFbgI/AAAAAAAACmg/ued_ncizMGg/s1600/HPIM2092.JPG"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634866163420065282" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-okNi3qGsdwo/TjMQ67uFbgI/AAAAAAAACmg/ued_ncizMGg/s320/HPIM2092.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> Here is a bright one. I love the way the wheels on the bus go round and round. Well, you know what I mean -- <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">lots</span> of movement in these circles.<br /></span><br /><div><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Wb-fUSkA13c/TjMQ6arx7DI/AAAAAAAACmQ/73yYsKXHZS0/s1600/HPIM2088.JPG"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634866154552028210" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Wb-fUSkA13c/TjMQ6arx7DI/AAAAAAAACmQ/73yYsKXHZS0/s320/HPIM2088.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> Here is a closer look at part of it. Bright colours, black and white so it has reverse colours, and lots of curved sewing. Eek on the curved sewing part.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6FDPG-cg6ME/TjMQ6fIGLsI/AAAAAAAACmI/rFE6feYRQbs/s1600/HPIM2089.JPG"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634866155744538306" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6FDPG-cg6ME/TjMQ6fIGLsI/AAAAAAAACmI/rFE6feYRQbs/s320/HPIM2089.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> I guess I am in a blue phase. I love the way the blocks form the pattern in this one. So simple yet so effective.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wdhmE-UfD2M/TjMQM23t2jI/AAAAAAAACmA/TtjN5pnFC8M/s1600/HPIM2086.JPG"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634865371844303410" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wdhmE-UfD2M/TjMQM23t2jI/AAAAAAAACmA/TtjN5pnFC8M/s320/HPIM2086.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> It does contain at least half a bazillion <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">HSTs</span> though, doesn't it? Nice quilting, too. I am getting to like solids more and more. <br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aDM7_wI29Xc/TjMQMslAt6I/AAAAAAAACl4/Sj3fP8rDrYw/s1600/HPIM2087.JPG"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634865369081493410" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aDM7_wI29Xc/TjMQMslAt6I/AAAAAAAACl4/Sj3fP8rDrYw/s320/HPIM2087.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> A more traditional quilt.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Sg2vCsqco7Q/TjMQMZ0RVYI/AAAAAAAAClw/UXo42pSW5Ec/s1600/HPIM2084.JPG"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634865364045223298" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Sg2vCsqco7Q/TjMQMZ0RVYI/AAAAAAAAClw/UXo42pSW5Ec/s320/HPIM2084.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> And nice reds and greens. I like the use of the stripe as a border and I love the all the fabrics used in the block. Checks, stripes, and a nice star variation.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--RPUEn1mtsE/TjMQMUcA9-I/AAAAAAAAClo/F9dcQqvzWNg/s1600/HPIM2085.JPG"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634865362601310178" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--RPUEn1mtsE/TjMQMUcA9-I/AAAAAAAAClo/F9dcQqvzWNg/s320/HPIM2085.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> This one was in the featured quilter area on a table so the shot is kind of funny. I like that it uses purple.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ceb7my1s6Bc/TjMQMGqZ5II/AAAAAAAAClg/kG0_Um2wRFQ/s1600/HPIM2083.JPG"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634865358903567490" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ceb7my1s6Bc/TjMQMGqZ5II/AAAAAAAAClg/kG0_Um2wRFQ/s320/HPIM2083.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> More next time. I will try to be back sooner rather than later. Life keeps getting in the way of personal blogging. You know how that goes. Hope no one melts out there.</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>kcenya1950http://www.blogger.com/profile/04662054102040674321noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697236576246276566.post-63217090860718834622011-07-17T09:50:00.005-06:002011-07-17T10:38:22.232-06:00Mid Year's Resolutions<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">You can make them mid-year, can't you, not just at New Year's? I think I need to resolve to stop buying fabric until I use more up. The stash is definitely getting out of control. The shelves are stuffed to overflowing. What brought this on you ask? Well, if you must know, digging in my scrap bin. Which is also overflowing. </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I am working on several projects at once and they require digging in scraps and in the stash and this has brought cold hard reality to the fore. I really have a lot of fabric! I bet you are not surprised. But such cool stuff keeps coming out. And it can make some of the things in my stash look a little tired and forlorn. </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Plus sometimes when you are digging in your stash don't you just wonder how you ended up with some of it? I think our tastes change a bit over time plus there is always the stuff that gets bought when you just have to have another red or green for some project. Or blue. Yesterday I bought some blue at Joann's with my 50% off coupon because I really did need some blue. You know I did.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">One of the other things that affects tastes is blogging don't you think? I have been reading lots of "modern" quilt blogs. In general I love the bright colours. While primitives is my style the brights attract me and I want to some of those, too.</span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9gWKqvJ-xGk/TiMIXPKohWI/AAAAAAAAClU/iP6UM-HQ8zM/s1600/HPIM2061a.JPG"></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Oh, well, we will see how long I can keep this resolution. </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Meanwhile, what have I been up to? Well, going to quilt shows as you know, and yes there are still lots of pictures from the Boise show to share. But I thought I would let you know what little I have been doing.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">First up is a panel a friend sent me. One day an unexpected package came in the mail. It was soft an squishy and you know what that means. This was inside. From <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Whimsicals</span>. Isn't it cute? I have cut it up but that is as far as I have gotten so far.<br /></span><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kYjo9qUdz5c/TiMIXJtOOxI/AAAAAAAAClM/I0tbQDRiMq0/s1600/HPIM2081.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630353152978860818" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kYjo9qUdz5c/TiMIXJtOOxI/AAAAAAAAClM/I0tbQDRiMq0/s320/HPIM2081.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> This was in the package also. It is a tall house. And there is a tall house in the panel, too, see it? Now this friend knows the secret about my tall house but these reminded her of me and she got them for me. Isn't that just the greatest? I found a chain so I can wear this tall house. I love the autumnal colours in this, too.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-31u77NEfopQ/TiMIWlXj4bI/AAAAAAAAClE/4LOLA8Cr6Jo/s1600/HPIM2075.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630353143224328626" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-31u77NEfopQ/TiMIWlXj4bI/AAAAAAAAClE/4LOLA8Cr6Jo/s320/HPIM2075.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> So on to what I have been working on. I found a new blog, </span><a href="http://aroundtheblockdesigns.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">"Live a Colorful Life"</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> which I read all the way back to the beginning. I found it during the online spring market quilt show. This was the quilt she showed. I fell in love. I think she will ultimately do a tutorial -- at least she mentioned she might. Anyway, even though I had never worked with <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">selvedges</span> before and just had the picture to go by I copied her quilt shamelessly. But hers is way better because she uses pieces of the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">selvedges</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">that</span> say something meaningful. And hers is finished with cute quilting.</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I learned <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">a lot</span> and now I think I know how to work with <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">selvedges</span>. I am leaving this one alone though because I like it anyway and thank you, thank, you, thank you to Cindy for creating such a cool quilt. Go look at her blog and her really cute pincushions she makes with <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">selvedges</span>.<br /><br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MGL_W-NWByM/TiMIWcHFVKI/AAAAAAAACk8/5TC2_lQKPn4/s1600/HPIM2070.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630353140739298466" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MGL_W-NWByM/TiMIWcHFVKI/AAAAAAAACk8/5TC2_lQKPn4/s320/HPIM2070.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> And I finally finished this top. I wasn't really happy with any of the choices I had for <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">sashing</span> and the voting was mixed. I found a new lighter green Susan <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">Winget</span> fabric that is almost like the acid green and it looks terrific I think. So now this top is finished. Boy do I have a lot of pinning and quilting to do. The box of tops and backs really <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">runneth</span> over. (Yes, you noticed, another new fabric purchase here.)<br /><br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JCN_JZAPZSQ/TiMHhYggqLI/AAAAAAAACk0/RRd-bIYT8PE/s1600/HPIM2171.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630352229239138482" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JCN_JZAPZSQ/TiMHhYggqLI/AAAAAAAACk0/RRd-bIYT8PE/s320/HPIM2171.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> And then I made this little top. I love, love, love it too, now. It is a free pattern on </span><a href="http://sewmamasew.com/"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Sew Mama Sew</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">. <br />You do go there, don't you? It had a couple more rows around it but I didn't like it as much when they were there so I took them off and left it like this. I really like the different widths of the logs. The outside ones were fatter and they just seemed too big to me. Here is the link to the pattern: </span><a href="http://sewmamasew.com/blog2/2011/04/free-fish-baby-log-cabin-pdf-pattern-malka-from-a-stitch-in-dye/"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">http://sewmamasew.com/blog2/2011/04/free-fish-baby-log-cabin-pdf-pattern-malka-from-a-stitch-in-dye/</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> It's called Fish Baby Log Cabin. I like it so much I am going to make more like it in different colours. I have a bunch of fat quarter bottoms from making Buggy Barn quilts that will work for this I think. I found them and thought of it when I was digging in the scrap bin.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3OWJdoXUpjk/TiMHhAdiEaI/AAAAAAAACks/1W2ip7_6OuY/s1600/HPIM2174.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630352222784197026" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3OWJdoXUpjk/TiMHhAdiEaI/AAAAAAAACks/1W2ip7_6OuY/s320/HPIM2174.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Then, speaking of "modern" quilts, which I was, I made this top, too. It is from the warm/cool quilt a long at the </span><a href="http://incolororder.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">"In Colour Order" </span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">blog. Here is the link to the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-error">QAL</span>: </span><a href="http://incolororder.blogspot.com/p/warm-cool-quilt-along.html"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">http://incolororder.blogspot.com/p/warm-cool-quilt-along.html</span></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I thought it was fun because I got to use some of the newer and my older (from when the grand kids were little) BRIGHT fabrics. I do not have a clue where I will put it in my house but it is fun, don't you think? Well, yes, I do have a clue -- on the guest room bed under the comforter where lots of quilts go to hang out. One of these days it will be so tall you will need a ladder to get up onto that bed!<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7MCIuDtv3i4/TiMHg3HP49I/AAAAAAAACkk/alqXGP-R_S8/s1600/HPIM2173.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630352220274811858" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7MCIuDtv3i4/TiMHg3HP49I/AAAAAAAACkk/alqXGP-R_S8/s320/HPIM2173.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><br /><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">So, this post probably should have been entitled something about links since I have added so many. It's kind of an all over the place post. Just catching up and matching up to my all over the place life right now. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-error">Keepin</span>' it real, you know. </span><br /><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>kcenya1950http://www.blogger.com/profile/04662054102040674321noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697236576246276566.post-6987996863486904922011-07-10T13:32:00.005-06:002011-07-10T13:51:34.766-06:00The rest of the Council show<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Remember, I told you I didn't take <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">a lot</span> of pictures so we can finish up today. This one is an interesting log cabin-<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">ish</span> quilt I think. It makes me think of watermelon <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">because</span> of the colours I guess but not really. </span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KHsNYjyjrbA/ThoAqUrH1wI/AAAAAAAACkU/MhQk53i4Y28/s1600/HPIM2024.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627811411456939778" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KHsNYjyjrbA/ThoAqUrH1wI/AAAAAAAACkU/MhQk53i4Y28/s320/HPIM2024.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> You can see just the edge of this one peeking out of the previous pic so here is the whole thing. Signature block pattern I think. Interesting colours. Probably the most modern quilt at the show. I have started reading lots of modern quilt blogs when I have time to read blogs, which, unfortunately has not been often lately and I think this one would fit in, especially with the kind of aqua.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eWIbL8z1aEY/ThoAqI6n_OI/AAAAAAAACkM/tpUOJR26dgc/s1600/HPIM2022.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627811408300735714" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eWIbL8z1aEY/ThoAqI6n_OI/AAAAAAAACkM/tpUOJR26dgc/s320/HPIM2022.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> More traditional with lots of stitchery. I worry about that poor sheep who swallowed a house... Interesting wool and stitchery. I don't think I have seen anything quite like it before.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ipZjYKa2XDs/ThoApwezrFI/AAAAAAAACkE/PFjCgxcl2og/s1600/HPIM2020.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627811401741610066" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ipZjYKa2XDs/ThoApwezrFI/AAAAAAAACkE/PFjCgxcl2og/s320/HPIM2020.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I love this sunflower block. It is part of a great quilt but it certainly is my favourite block. I don't know that I have a favourite flower but sunflower would certainly be in the running.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sEkJeuYYRH0/Thn_lIoR19I/AAAAAAAACj8/EDPG1aKrcMQ/s1600/HPIM2018.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627810222812813266" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sEkJeuYYRH0/Thn_lIoR19I/AAAAAAAACj8/EDPG1aKrcMQ/s320/HPIM2018.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Here is the entire thing. I love the dark background. Oh, and it has sunflower yellow <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">sashing</span> hasn't it?<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Z-aQqBeU85Q/Thn_k65YGOI/AAAAAAAACj0/zK6u_EWFoYs/s1600/HPIM2017.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627810219126429922" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Z-aQqBeU85Q/Thn_k65YGOI/AAAAAAAACj0/zK6u_EWFoYs/s320/HPIM2017.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I have this pattern. Actually it was a kit. I got it out one day and decided it looked like too much trouble and I didn't really have a place for it to go if I were to finish it so I used some of the fabrics for something else. My kit was Christmas red and green. Here are two interesting colour and fabric takes on the pattern. Incredibly different and different still from what my kit contained.<br /><br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DLN7cHla3xM/Thn_kcUOFEI/AAAAAAAACjs/95qYzYfYVxA/s1600/HPIM2014.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627810210917520450" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DLN7cHla3xM/Thn_kcUOFEI/AAAAAAAACjs/95qYzYfYVxA/s320/HPIM2014.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Obviously there are others in this pattern -- it was a group challenge. But I only took the pics of the ones I liked the best. <br /><br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5g2IIZJvDWM/Thn_j8YDt7I/AAAAAAAACjk/7ZiYQAkPDwo/s1600/HPIM2013.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627810202343684018" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5g2IIZJvDWM/Thn_j8YDt7I/AAAAAAAACjk/7ZiYQAkPDwo/s320/HPIM2013.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Here is another applique quilt. with my more favourite country prim colours. I love all the different baskets.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-18lc5gggCl4/Thn_jm7_V0I/AAAAAAAACjc/9UrnY_hrfUc/s1600/HPIM2010.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627810196588812098" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-18lc5gggCl4/Thn_jm7_V0I/AAAAAAAACjc/9UrnY_hrfUc/s320/HPIM2010.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> So there we go. Yes, I have been doing a bit on my own and I also have a lot of pics from the Boise show so plenty more to share, just need to get to it along with everything else that is going on.</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>kcenya1950http://www.blogger.com/profile/04662054102040674321noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697236576246276566.post-70021626965116208362011-07-05T14:35:00.006-06:002011-07-05T15:01:27.811-06:00Council Quilt Show Pics<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Let's have a look at the Council quilt show, shall we? I didn't take lots of pictures so probably two posts will do it. The Emmett show didn't have a chicken quilt but Council came through. I really like this one. Kind of bright prim colours. I love that they face different directions and that there is that one upside down one. I always feel like the upside down one -- out of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">synch</span> with everyone else...</span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iOvYds7Papk/ThN5U_Anm2I/AAAAAAAACjU/eJH7ZdsGfu8/s1600/HPIM2007.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625973760934255458" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iOvYds7Papk/ThN5U_Anm2I/AAAAAAAACjU/eJH7ZdsGfu8/s320/HPIM2007.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> This is one of the theme quilts. I really like the tree and the basket on the bottom right.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ysL0Y5RFoCc/ThN5UrE9QYI/AAAAAAAACjM/5Legx8NS5kk/s1600/HPIM2006.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625973755583742338" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ysL0Y5RFoCc/ThN5UrE9QYI/AAAAAAAACjM/5Legx8NS5kk/s320/HPIM2006.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Love the colours on this one. Lots of different bits and pieces of applique and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">piecing</span>. Even embroidery.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XD377H45R0k/ThN5UDNYQlI/AAAAAAAACjE/9th9O6RGriE/s1600/HPIM2002.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625973744881648210" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XD377H45R0k/ThN5UDNYQlI/AAAAAAAACjE/9th9O6RGriE/s320/HPIM2002.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I love, love, love this one. Sweet. Lot's of stitchery. Not something I am ever likely to do but I like to look at it. It looks like some of the Australian designs I see all over the web.<br /><br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n4kpjV2xm7U/ThN5TeFCBcI/AAAAAAAACi8/NsbhA_zf-_g/s1600/HPIM1999.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625973734914524610" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n4kpjV2xm7U/ThN5TeFCBcI/AAAAAAAACi8/NsbhA_zf-_g/s320/HPIM1999.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I liked the use of stitchery in this one, too. Interesting colours.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--TjltQ3s9D0/ThN4SvAJVPI/AAAAAAAACi0/QVfrzTE06cA/s1600/HPIM1996.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625972622765937906" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--TjltQ3s9D0/ThN4SvAJVPI/AAAAAAAACi0/QVfrzTE06cA/s320/HPIM1996.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> This is an unusual border I think. I don't know that I have seen the long strip and little square treatment before but I like it <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">a lot</span>. I hope I can remember it when I am thinking about borders and edge treatments. Love the diagonal stripe binding, too. I never think of that but It always looks absolutely terrific.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eZ4xzOiMpwg/ThN4R3LZoeI/AAAAAAAACis/3Ki1LlrCxvc/s1600/HPIM1994.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625972607780757986" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eZ4xzOiMpwg/ThN4R3LZoeI/AAAAAAAACis/3Ki1LlrCxvc/s320/HPIM1994.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Here is the rest of the quilt. Kind of deep bright pastels. I imagine this is paper pieced. Did you catch the quarter circles/suns in the borders? Neat ideas all the way around on borders on this one.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qlYCf1IjcaY/ThN4RhRzihI/AAAAAAAACik/o7NDdvddr8k/s1600/HPIM1993.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625972601902041618" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qlYCf1IjcaY/ThN4RhRzihI/AAAAAAAACik/o7NDdvddr8k/s320/HPIM1993.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> It's funny that I have decided to make 2 quilts after this show that I didn't take pictures of. Both Buggy Barn -- one hearts and one stars. I already had the patterns and have pics of them buried somewhere on the camera that I will share later on. Both of the quilts at the show were done in batiks which is not my favourite fabric style. But also there was not much contrast on them so it was hard to discern the stars and hearts. But I still got to thinking <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">a lot</span> about them and want to get them made. Isn't that funny -- that you would be inspired by something you didn't particularly think worked? </span></div></div></div></div></div></div>kcenya1950http://www.blogger.com/profile/04662054102040674321noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697236576246276566.post-31320804081303112702011-06-21T13:49:00.006-06:002011-06-21T14:02:11.884-06:00So what do you think?<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Which <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">sashing</span> looks the best? Help me decide. This one is a light green gingham like thing from <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">DS</span> from <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">JoAnns</span>.</span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-110pfWKlNrs/TgD25UhN33I/AAAAAAAAChs/lw8E3MzShvY/s1600/HPIM2080.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620763799579385714" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-110pfWKlNrs/TgD25UhN33I/AAAAAAAAChs/lw8E3MzShvY/s320/HPIM2080.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> This one is a kind of dull green with dots.</span><br /><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WvdelUE775U/TgD245-vZsI/AAAAAAAAChk/rfiuEPvNT-s/s1600/HPIM2079a.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620763792455460546" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WvdelUE775U/TgD245-vZsI/AAAAAAAAChk/rfiuEPvNT-s/s320/HPIM2079a.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> A bright pink with dots. April Cornell from <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">JoAnns</span>.<br /></span><br /><div><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-R-tovRVtwc8/TgD2OMzNqyI/AAAAAAAAChU/B0Pl_BBI_2A/s1600/HPIM2078.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620763058773011234" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-R-tovRVtwc8/TgD2OMzNqyI/AAAAAAAAChU/B0Pl_BBI_2A/s320/HPIM2078.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Followed by an older Michael Miller light aqua dot.<br /></span><br /><div><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_OPiSMFEDkk/TgD2NuPG4AI/AAAAAAAAChE/gSiXmBp8R1A/s1600/HPIM2077.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620763050568507394" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_OPiSMFEDkk/TgD2NuPG4AI/AAAAAAAAChE/gSiXmBp8R1A/s320/HPIM2077.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Or what I originally thought I was going to use -- a kind of acid green texture.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ks6Uh87uL9g/TgD2NTd4jEI/AAAAAAAACg8/m71k0-rcXiY/s1600/HPIM2076.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620763043382725698" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ks6Uh87uL9g/TgD2NTd4jEI/AAAAAAAACg8/m71k0-rcXiY/s320/HPIM2076.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I thought taking pics of all of them and looking at them on the screen as well as on the floor would help. But of course the colours on the screen are not like real life, so it hasn't helped. But you can, what do you think? Let's <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">crowdsource</span> this question!</span> <br /><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>kcenya1950http://www.blogger.com/profile/04662054102040674321noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697236576246276566.post-87952471469619888342011-06-20T13:21:00.005-06:002011-06-20T13:46:34.056-06:00Let's finish the Emmett quilt show pictures<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">This was my very favourite quilt at the show. Mr <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">THQ</span> said it looked like a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">formica</span> table top from the fifties and it kind of does -- the colours certainly are very fifties and it kind of has that boomerang look. It is a Buggy Barn and when I came home and looked it up it appears that the fabric choices I was so enamoured of were all part of the kit. So at least I don't have to be quite so envious of the colour choices -- after all, they were done by a PROFESSIONAL. </span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-beozaQPg5Jk/Tf-gKReWuHI/AAAAAAAACg0/WKuRDXAU02E/s1600/HPIM1991.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620386958331525234" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-beozaQPg5Jk/Tf-gKReWuHI/AAAAAAAACg0/WKuRDXAU02E/s320/HPIM1991.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I always like samplers. Lot's of applique on this one. I like how the borders go all <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">roundy</span>.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8n9eMaWDIH4/Tf-gKHHSZmI/AAAAAAAACgs/N1WChvunrkc/s1600/HPIM1990.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620386955550418530" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8n9eMaWDIH4/Tf-gKHHSZmI/AAAAAAAACgs/N1WChvunrkc/s320/HPIM1990.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Not my colours at all seeing how this one comes across as pastel, but I loved the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">churn dash</span> border. <br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EAR6uIOPpmM/Tf-gJi9YcbI/AAAAAAAACgk/7lHDXCwvaBs/s1600/HPIM1988.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620386945845195186" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EAR6uIOPpmM/Tf-gJi9YcbI/AAAAAAAACgk/7lHDXCwvaBs/s320/HPIM1988.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> This one said it had been made a while back and the colours show that. I <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">have</span> made these kinds of hearts. They are fun and easy.<br /><br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NMd5MENgSJs/Tf-fbnSFXlI/AAAAAAAACgc/krGLhPdX_uE/s1600/HPIM1985.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620386156731784786" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NMd5MENgSJs/Tf-fbnSFXlI/AAAAAAAACgc/krGLhPdX_uE/s320/HPIM1985.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Isn't this a cute little one? I love the border.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g_G2b_eprX8/Tf-fbIBXVTI/AAAAAAAACgU/OcGXlvzXPK8/s1600/HPIM1982.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620386148340159794" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g_G2b_eprX8/Tf-fbIBXVTI/AAAAAAAACgU/OcGXlvzXPK8/s320/HPIM1982.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> This one was up high, at least way too high for me to get a good look at it. I like the snowy looking backgrounds.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-igcLlsoJdbA/Tf-fbNTWZZI/AAAAAAAACgM/F3zIQfVNIcQ/s1600/HPIM1978.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620386149757773202" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-igcLlsoJdbA/Tf-fbNTWZZI/AAAAAAAACgM/F3zIQfVNIcQ/s320/HPIM1978.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> More Buggy Barn. Of course, I have 4 BB books but none of them are the ones that have the quilts from this show that I liked. Go figure. Nice cats but what I really love is the funky flowers. I had seen this one in the most recent "Quilt Sampler" magazine in one of the pictures. It wasn't labeled but I figured it was a BB and now I know that it is. </span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Don't you find when you look at all the shop pics in that magazine that they never identify the quilt you want to know about? I have called shops in the past to get pattern names but they take the pics so far in advance that sometimes it is hard to get the answer, and even harder to get the pattern.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-L4sWtyigJX0/Tf-fadpj8rI/AAAAAAAACgE/bzRjjNHcxV0/s1600/HPIM1975.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620386136966034098" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-L4sWtyigJX0/Tf-fadpj8rI/AAAAAAAACgE/bzRjjNHcxV0/s320/HPIM1975.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Another little one. More my colours. I once tried to make all the little quilts in one of the Little Quilts books and got about half way. I guess I should resurrect that project. Small ones are almost instant gratification. And I can pin baste them on my cutting table so I don't have to get all my stuff out and moved around in the dining room.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-csJ8cq1ECXI/Tf-fZ9jZqVI/AAAAAAAACf8/OZ31Fo1iqpQ/s1600/HPIM1974.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620386128350259538" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-csJ8cq1ECXI/Tf-fZ9jZqVI/AAAAAAAACf8/OZ31Fo1iqpQ/s320/HPIM1974.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> See, another Buggy Barn. I would never in a hundred bazillion years thought of doing any BB pattern in neutrals. Of course I would never in a hundred bazillion years think of doing anything in neutrals. But this is really striking and I like it <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">a lot</span>.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SgDl_OBQ-EY/Tf-em5XDn_I/AAAAAAAACf0/A6wbOJ9i1HY/s1600/HPIM1973.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620385251051413490" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SgDl_OBQ-EY/Tf-em5XDn_I/AAAAAAAACf0/A6wbOJ9i1HY/s320/HPIM1973.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Another green and red one.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aqqZydMnngs/Tf-emY3h4NI/AAAAAAAACfs/TrEmBvADRWI/s1600/HPIM1970.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620385242329243858" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aqqZydMnngs/Tf-emY3h4NI/AAAAAAAACfs/TrEmBvADRWI/s320/HPIM1970.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> And I don't really like the colours of this one at all but I like the pattern. It really has a 3 dimensional look to me even though it is flat. The description said it took 2 special rulers!<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_FSwzoX0f_M/Tf-elsppF9I/AAAAAAAACfk/aNlermT6vsE/s1600/HPIM1969.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620385230459836370" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_FSwzoX0f_M/Tf-elsppF9I/AAAAAAAACfk/aNlermT6vsE/s320/HPIM1969.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> This one has yo <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">yos</span> as flower centers. I liked the addition of the lavender colour in it.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tqPXjBkPjlI/Tf-elGS1u3I/AAAAAAAACfc/KGoH-GUjt6E/s1600/HPIM1967.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620385220163648370" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tqPXjBkPjlI/Tf-elGS1u3I/AAAAAAAACfc/KGoH-GUjt6E/s320/HPIM1967.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> And another fun applique quilt. I really like the sunflowers on this one.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mp9iyWoOW_4/Tf-ekiKHstI/AAAAAAAACfU/XU4PMTldh8k/s1600/HPIM1964.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620385210463400658" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mp9iyWoOW_4/Tf-ekiKHstI/AAAAAAAACfU/XU4PMTldh8k/s320/HPIM1964.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Well, that does it for Emmett this year. We are heading up to Council on Thursday for their show and then the weekend brings the Boise show. So be prepared for lots and lots of quilt show pictures. June is a great month!</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>kcenya1950http://www.blogger.com/profile/04662054102040674321noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697236576246276566.post-33856617970602672522011-06-17T14:49:00.006-06:002011-06-17T15:13:48.688-06:00Let's go to the Emmett quilt show, shall we?<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Hard to believe that's already time for the Emmett Cherry Festival which means quilt show. Cherries were not ready again this year as the weather has not cooperated at all so we will have to make another trip for them in a week or two. Meanwhile let's go to the show.</span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SGoS_mSDO88/TfvBDJNGReI/AAAAAAAACfM/3COCZ1I9lo4/s1600/HPIM1961.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5619297219829450210" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SGoS_mSDO88/TfvBDJNGReI/AAAAAAAACfM/3COCZ1I9lo4/s320/HPIM1961.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Here is a little bit of a closer look at this one. You know I love scrap quilts but I really really like <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">that</span> all the tan bits in this quilt are the same. Love the colours. Very autumnal. Speaking of autumnal, I always thought I was a winter, not that I really ever cared enough to get my colours "done" but I had a book from the library written by the stylist for "Mad Men" and she had a web link for checking out your colours. Of course I have lost it now and it only goes by hair colour but according to it I am an autumn. While my clothes don't particularly show it my taste in quilts sure does!<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZSYY4E8RQgc/TfvBCycjl1I/AAAAAAAACfE/bLk4fucJAsQ/s1600/HPIM1960.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5619297213720270674" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZSYY4E8RQgc/TfvBCycjl1I/AAAAAAAACfE/bLk4fucJAsQ/s320/HPIM1960.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I love this one. I love the sort of half rail fence blocks. And my other favourite colours for quilts has to be reds and greens of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">which</span> this quilt has an abundance.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dWFFktZq9RQ/TfvBCaIVYmI/AAAAAAAACe8/UyQMQyfT73I/s1600/HPIM1959.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5619297207193002594" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dWFFktZq9RQ/TfvBCaIVYmI/AAAAAAAACe8/UyQMQyfT73I/s320/HPIM1959.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Yeah, I know, I forgot to rotate this one. Just ignore the flowers on their side! I love <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">churn dashes</span>. I think they have passed stars as my favourite block.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mo431_MPdoU/TfvBCHJUO8I/AAAAAAAACe0/RZtV6T7jZvQ/s1600/HPIM1957.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5619297202096847810" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mo431_MPdoU/TfvBCHJUO8I/AAAAAAAACe0/RZtV6T7jZvQ/s320/HPIM1957.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> This one is so happy.<br /><br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l8YGyCoDfBE/TfvBB7E4rYI/AAAAAAAACes/rmJ0RIkN_cY/s1600/HPIM1956.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5619297198857039234" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l8YGyCoDfBE/TfvBB7E4rYI/AAAAAAAACes/rmJ0RIkN_cY/s320/HPIM1956.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> And I love these colours and the polka dots. This was a Christmas line last year or the year before wasn't it? I remember thinking I wasn't sure about the aqua but the polka dots really do it for me. Oh, that purple around the edges is the quilt behind it, so don't go thinking someone added a purple border!<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w_0r5D9LyxI/TfvAIuLMy5I/AAAAAAAACek/EvA78lOebVc/s1600/HPIM1953.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5619296216141319058" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w_0r5D9LyxI/TfvAIuLMy5I/AAAAAAAACek/EvA78lOebVc/s320/HPIM1953.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Here is a closer look at those polka dots.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PFb-EIfmB-Y/TfvAIHvWfqI/AAAAAAAACec/l8vRnJEhG1o/s1600/HPIM1952.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5619296205823966882" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PFb-EIfmB-Y/TfvAIHvWfqI/AAAAAAAACec/l8vRnJEhG1o/s320/HPIM1952.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Cute, cute, cute. I have never seen this pattern which kind of surprises me as I love Halloween quilts. You can't see it but the skeleton had a gold lame tooth.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xh95FkEa1jY/TfvAH_yGgxI/AAAAAAAACeU/7mWW7e_QteI/s1600/HPIM1951.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5619296203688018706" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xh95FkEa1jY/TfvAH_yGgxI/AAAAAAAACeU/7mWW7e_QteI/s320/HPIM1951.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Cute stitchery.<br /><br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KB3RXgRD-Zg/TfvAHCJKs6I/AAAAAAAACeM/js83mNXNPzg/s1600/HPIM1950.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5619296187141764002" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KB3RXgRD-Zg/TfvAHCJKs6I/AAAAAAAACeM/js83mNXNPzg/s320/HPIM1950.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Red and green. And my now second favourite block -- stars. This had some purple in it. The corner posts and some in the star blocks and it looked great. The <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">sashing</span> is a tiny lined plaid that was tan, red, green, and purple.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MfSJPsh192o/TfvAG1o1EXI/AAAAAAAACeE/1-tfgzwifzI/s1600/HPIM1947.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5619296183784903026" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MfSJPsh192o/TfvAG1o1EXI/AAAAAAAACeE/1-tfgzwifzI/s320/HPIM1947.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> This is just the first installment. I have about as many pictures left to share but thought I should divide it up into two posts. The Emmett show is not real big but they always have quilts I like. Of course, you only get to see the ones I liked -- a curated display!<br /></span><br /><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>kcenya1950http://www.blogger.com/profile/04662054102040674321noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697236576246276566.post-38692173699644418212011-06-12T12:56:00.006-06:002011-06-12T13:18:04.015-06:00While I was waiting<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">for the holiday sale so I could buy my 12 yards of bias tape, I of course decided to start something else. After all, what else do you do when the multiple things you are working on are in a holding pattern? Remember when I decided to work on all my kits that were hanging around? That didn't go too far, now did it? Anyway, this pattern came in a kit with the panel so I decided to work on it.</span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BYKQa8bciGM/TfUNEwKvdOI/AAAAAAAACd8/X5m1y6aiEZQ/s1600/HPIM2066.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5617410485515154658" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BYKQa8bciGM/TfUNEwKvdOI/AAAAAAAACd8/X5m1y6aiEZQ/s320/HPIM2066.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> All the fabric except the panel were brushed homespun plaids. I didn't like most of them but have to admit the colours were super with the panel. If they weren't by the panel designer they were chosen well. Anyway, all the squares were 4" finished and used the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Thangle</span> method for the HST. I decided not to make the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">bear's</span> block because I did not want to make all those tiny <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">HSTs</span>. So it was on to the star blocks on the bottom. Now you know I love star blocks and have made at least a bazillion of them. So, what happened?</span> <br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2UhfM4aP3fo/TfUNEWgvVjI/AAAAAAAACd0/iqClRqIJlnw/s1600/HPIM2064.JPG"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5617410478628099634" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2UhfM4aP3fo/TfUNEWgvVjI/AAAAAAAACd0/iqClRqIJlnw/s320/HPIM2064.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">You would think I would have noticed something amiss before <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">I had</span> sewn all 11 of them together. But, no. So the decision was to rip them out or do something else. Little homespun pieces do not rip out well so these went in the trash and I decided on the something else. Next morning I did dig them out because that seemed so wasteful. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">Grrr</span>. Anyway, the top did get finished and I like it <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">a lot</span> despite not liking so much of the fabric. I wonder what I would have chosen if this had not been a kit? Unanswerable.<br /><br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_X5-d-Esjws/TfUMO2L7USI/AAAAAAAACds/SaS_JCgedwY/s1600/HPIM2065.JPG"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5617409559417803042" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_X5-d-Esjws/TfUMO2L7USI/AAAAAAAACds/SaS_JCgedwY/s320/HPIM2065.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">We had done some <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">thrifting</span> not too long ago and I keep forgetting to take a picture of this bowl. It is so wonderfully retro that I had to have it. I haven't a clue what to do with it since I am not much for pastels, but it's now mine.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XFHdVrdH3mI/TfUMOeN8mYI/AAAAAAAACdk/bfbMARNiuRE/s1600/HPIM2063.JPG"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5617409552983824770" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XFHdVrdH3mI/TfUMOeN8mYI/AAAAAAAACdk/bfbMARNiuRE/s320/HPIM2063.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Back to quilting. Here is the center block with all the applique completed. And as it turns out I like the fact that the curve of the vine and the curve of the cat's tail go the same direction. So that turned out to be a good mistake. I am glad I left it alone.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1blH-gds240/TfUMNpTEnPI/AAAAAAAACdc/glta593xEnw/s1600/HPIM2068.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5617409538778242290" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1blH-gds240/TfUMNpTEnPI/AAAAAAAACdc/glta593xEnw/s320/HPIM2068.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">And today I got the blocks sewn into place. All that is left now is the borders which are FULL of applique. When I cut this out many months ago I cut 4.5" borders instead of the called for 6.5". I have no idea why I did that and now need to decide whether to use them or find more black fabric and cut new ones. This quilt has had way too many decisions I think.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1bwfKAQgVQM/TfUMNdOtcbI/AAAAAAAACdU/dbpYLZRlacg/s1600/HPIM2069.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5617409535538721202" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1bwfKAQgVQM/TfUMNdOtcbI/AAAAAAAACdU/dbpYLZRlacg/s320/HPIM2069.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">But I am liking it <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">a lot</span>. I don't think it needs the additional applique. Just some plain black to set off the stars would be sufficient. And that would keep it slightly smaller. It is a big one. I really have a dilemma about quilting it, too. My usual stipple does not seem right. Maybe some shadow quilting. Like I said, too many decisions on this one. I expect it will have to hang around for a while now until I feel like making some of those decisions!<br /></span><br /><div></div></div></div></div></div></div>kcenya1950http://www.blogger.com/profile/04662054102040674321noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697236576246276566.post-69752004341683189782011-06-05T07:59:00.007-06:002011-06-05T08:40:42.804-06:00This cracked me up...<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">And I'm sorry the picture is a bit blurry. I had a hard time getting the picture. I got this book from the library and this is what I found. Oh, and I didn't read the chapter. I was really not liking the book and had been mostly skimming so I figured this was good advice. One of the things I have decided as I have gotten older is that it is OKAY to not finish a book I don't like. So I don't. </span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mebPlhPsbv8/TeuQzJGoX2I/AAAAAAAACdM/b3HuUxEhWAY/s1600/HPIM2062.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614740568738914146" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mebPlhPsbv8/TeuQzJGoX2I/AAAAAAAACdM/b3HuUxEhWAY/s320/HPIM2062.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I have managed to get more applique on this guy. I had to stop here until I could get out and get the 12 yards of 1/4" bias tape. I wanted to get it at the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Hancock's</span> on Decoration Day because it was on sale for 40% off and there was a 10% off your entire purchase coupon. <br /></span><br /><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xLfIFwNK9ZY/TeuO4xICOEI/AAAAAAAACc0/L5A-bVkdfYs/s1600/HPIM2056.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614738466358310978" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xLfIFwNK9ZY/TeuO4xICOEI/AAAAAAAACc0/L5A-bVkdfYs/s320/HPIM2056.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> So I fused and cut out the rest of the applique pieces. There is a lot of machine blanket stitching in my future, isn't there? Look how nicely these are sorted. I decided that with so many pieces it was imperative to sort. That bag on the right is the rest of what goes on the center section above. The rest is for borders once the quilt is together.<br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-96QGnO0j9l8/TeuO4pcpjlI/AAAAAAAACcs/RGm8YIrWHuQ/s1600/HPIM2058.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614738464297291346" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-96QGnO0j9l8/TeuO4pcpjlI/AAAAAAAACcs/RGm8YIrWHuQ/s320/HPIM2058.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Did you see that Connecting Threads is having their 40% off book sale? I have pretty much stopped buying fabric there. I used to buy a lot of their little fat quarter sets with patterns. But I just have not liked their own fabric -- nothing about quality -- none of the fabric lines have appealed to me at all. </span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">But I love books. You already have realized that I am sure. So this is what I ordered. Well, I think I had 2 or 3 times this many in my basket but I culled down to this. I like to stay just a little over the $50 mark so I can get free shipping without feeling totally profligate with the spending. I have quite a few Nancy <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Halverson</span> books and just love her things although I have never made a single thing. But one of these days I will. Yeah, yeah, yeah.<br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-k736h6ydcMk/TeuNRGxuL_I/AAAAAAAACcc/mq9iSYPQgB0/s1600/HPIM2059.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614736685463908338" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-k736h6ydcMk/TeuNRGxuL_I/AAAAAAAACcc/mq9iSYPQgB0/s320/HPIM2059.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I have been reading in lots of blogs discussions about Denise Schmidt fabric now being available through <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">JoAnn's</span>. I am not really a Denise Schmidt fan so I really don't have an opinion as to whether she is "selling out" or not. If I were trying to make a living as a quilt pattern and fabric designer I am sure I would be on the lookout for any way to continue to support myself. Anyway, since <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">JoAnn's</span> also had good sales on Decoration Day I stopped there too and found these that I like. That top one is now with a stack of red white and blue fabrics that have been huddling together for a while. I have to decide to make something with them other than a nice stack to look at!<br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-T6OhxkUE-X4/TeuNQ2iSlpI/AAAAAAAACcU/ATawV8FFVaE/s1600/HPIM2060.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614736681104217746" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-T6OhxkUE-X4/TeuNQ2iSlpI/AAAAAAAACcU/ATawV8FFVaE/s320/HPIM2060.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> It turns out that I do own one <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">DS</span> pattern. I bought it when I was in SC visiting my daughter and she took me to a cute quilt shop. Her patterns are unusually expensive I think and looking at this one now I am not sure why I bought it. In general I am a "think about it shopper." I go and look at something, do not buy it, and then go back. Sometimes many times. If it is still there when I finally decide to buy it then I buy it. But when I am at a store that I know I can't go back to I get into a "buy it now, buy it now mode. There will never be another chance." So sometimes I end up with out of character things like this pattern. <br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CpJbPSo8RFs/TeuNQQdebpI/AAAAAAAACcM/7uEYASfYCgM/s1600/HPIM2061.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614736670883475090" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CpJbPSo8RFs/TeuNQQdebpI/AAAAAAAACcM/7uEYASfYCgM/s320/HPIM2061.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I got this top together, too. It also needs bias tape so it has been on hold, too. I am still deciding between matched and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">mis</span>-matched buttons. At <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">JoAnn's</span> buttons were all half price, too, so I bought the little sacks of black ones thinking I could then be <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">matchy</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">matchy</span> if I want to be. You would think that out of 2 packs of 130 buttons there would be 57 alike. No, two more packages would be needed. So much for an easy and inexpensive choice.<br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KG7mrf-UR_o/TeuNRbqNv2I/AAAAAAAACck/26_ZbC7D_kg/s1600/HPIM2057.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614736691069566818" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KG7mrf-UR_o/TeuNRbqNv2I/AAAAAAAACck/26_ZbC7D_kg/s320/HPIM2057.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> And of course while these two were on hold I started in on two more projects. They will have to wait for their show and tell until next time. </span></div>kcenya1950http://www.blogger.com/profile/04662054102040674321noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697236576246276566.post-8985845469710347572011-05-21T13:42:00.004-06:002011-05-21T13:50:37.478-06:00Actual progress is being made!<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Yeah, I know, nothing is appliqued yet, but look, the start squares are ready to go. The house that I sewed together rather than applique came out nicely I think. </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">And I actually climbed up and got my fusible web so that I could get ready to applique. Boy, that cat and moon are large! I usually do the window method of fusible web and getting that twisted cat border down and fused was not a lot of fun. </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">And then, do you see it? I realized that I didn't reverse the piece so my kitty faces the opposite way of the pattern. Now I need to decide if I should make more of it the other way or just ignore it. You know, no matter what you decide there is always another decision waiting to be made, now isn't there?</span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4xWZmAeBlZQ/TdgWHNTS_FI/AAAAAAAACcA/vASDxkfNp-s/s1600/HPIM2052.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609257648975445074" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4xWZmAeBlZQ/TdgWHNTS_FI/AAAAAAAACcA/vASDxkfNp-s/s320/HPIM2052.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Progress on this one, too. This one is all pinned ready to be appliqued. I didn't want to start blanket stitching until I had finished the star blocks. I sewed these houses together, too. On the first set the measurements came out perfectly. So of course, for some reason I added to the measurements when I cut the second set out and guess what? Yes, they were too big. Duh! Fun <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">unsewing</span>!<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-imKYcB89yoY/TdgWGISWCYI/AAAAAAAACb4/9VCprYLSHCc/s1600/HPIM2053.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609257630449404290" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-imKYcB89yoY/TdgWGISWCYI/AAAAAAAACb4/9VCprYLSHCc/s320/HPIM2053.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Here is a closer look at one set.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HSPSVDuqQzI/TdgWF7eBWSI/AAAAAAAACbw/eE-GpC-1l3I/s1600/HPIM2054.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609257627008719138" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HSPSVDuqQzI/TdgWF7eBWSI/AAAAAAAACbw/eE-GpC-1l3I/s320/HPIM2054.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> And the other.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P6Q_GsVEgjg/TdgWFZuFIzI/AAAAAAAACbo/KjtmL0kA4S0/s1600/HPIM2055.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609257617949270834" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P6Q_GsVEgjg/TdgWFZuFIzI/AAAAAAAACbo/KjtmL0kA4S0/s320/HPIM2055.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> This pattern uses buttons for the windows and flowers which is what originally drew me to it. But it calls for 24 red ones and 57 black ones! 57 matching buttons! <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">JoAnn's</span> is having half price buttons Decoration Day weekend so I guess if I want matching ones I need to go there then. I haven't decided, though, if I want them to match or if I should just dig in my massive button collection. See, there is another one of those pesky decisions!</span> <br /><div></div></div></div></div>kcenya1950http://www.blogger.com/profile/04662054102040674321noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697236576246276566.post-12779887731977479772011-05-18T12:09:00.004-06:002011-05-18T12:15:50.151-06:00Like I am not in the middle of enough<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">We went to the mall the other night, admittedly a rare event, and I picked up all flavours of Pottery Barn catalogs at PB. I used to get them but since I never bought anything they stopped coming. Anyway, in one of them was this star quilt with all the fabric parts of the stars made out of crazy quilt type stuff. WOW! And what a great use for scraps. Check out the link:</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.potterybarn.com/products/shelburne-crazy-patchwork-quilt-sham/?pkey=cpatterned-quilts-shams">http://www.potterybarn.com/products/shelburne-crazy-patchwork-quilt-sham/?pkey=cpatterned-quilts-shams</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Isn't it pretty? Like I need another to add to the to do list, don't I? Better get going on the things I am already in the middle of!</span>kcenya1950http://www.blogger.com/profile/04662054102040674321noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697236576246276566.post-78614362808661703072011-05-15T13:42:00.003-06:002011-05-15T13:59:26.131-06:00Yes, it is a mess<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">and I know it. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Since</span> I have not been able to decide what to work on I have been sort of working on several things at one time and the result is a real mess. Does it make you feel at home or make you want to run screaming from the room?</span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8iAvsCHvMlY/TdAtUaqaZMI/AAAAAAAACbc/sR9B_3EIIqo/s1600/HPIM2045.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607031364854113474" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8iAvsCHvMlY/TdAtUaqaZMI/AAAAAAAACbc/sR9B_3EIIqo/s320/HPIM2045.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I started working on Midnight Silhouette -- see the pattern there? I have had the pattern for a while and had been collecting blacks. I cut the black pieces out a year or so ago and since I needed black for something else I decided to make this so I would know how much black is left for whatever it was I needed it for. I then decided that I didn't want to applique all the house pieces so I actually did MATH and cut and sewed the basic house pieces into one big piece that I will applique using fusible web around the edges and blanket stitch. At least I will once I climb up and get my fusible web down. That seems to be a stumbling block right now so I started in on the star blocks. See them there piled on the table next to my machine? <br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CL2SW1NExus/TdAtUOeOHLI/AAAAAAAACbU/WjCYi87MzGY/s1600/HPIM2046.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607031361581751474" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CL2SW1NExus/TdAtUOeOHLI/AAAAAAAACbU/WjCYi87MzGY/s320/HPIM2046.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Of course I am making it take a long time because I am making the little extra squares when you cut the diagonal off. Do you do this? I am making myself sew them as sometimes I just cut them and through them in the bucket called little half square triangles to be. They are likely to be "to be" forever as the thought of diving into that bucket and sewing them together <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">is not</span> at all attractive. Much better to do it as you go along, don't you think?<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SpXbdFlPoiI/TdAtTxk-mUI/AAAAAAAACbM/PqQ33HX2rGI/s1600/HPIM2050.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607031353825466690" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SpXbdFlPoiI/TdAtTxk-mUI/AAAAAAAACbM/PqQ33HX2rGI/s320/HPIM2050.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I am also in the middle of working on this. It is from a "<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Quiltmania</span>" magazine. I fell in love when I saw it and had gathered all the fabrics but that was as far as I got. Again I didn't want to applique every house so I did more MATH and cut the house larger so I could sew them together in a strip and then applique the funky pieces that are not seam-able and the roofs and doors and stuff. I think it will work out okay.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FhRvcDkMiPg/TdAtFUMcFnI/AAAAAAAACbE/0LHMAPRnGBs/s1600/HPIM2048.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607031105419744882" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FhRvcDkMiPg/TdAtFUMcFnI/AAAAAAAACbE/0LHMAPRnGBs/s320/HPIM2048.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I had finished the center <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">checkerboard</span> a week or so ago. I like it <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">a lot</span> although now that I have seen it and thought of the perfect place to hang it it is a little too wide for the spot. I will need to cut one row off. But now I need to decide if I take a row off both directions so it is still a square or just on one direction so it is a rectangle. Decisions, decisions! I certainly am making it harder on myself -- no wonder I have not gotten much done! I really like the brown, black and grey in this quilt. <br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yPtCP7YGeQs/TdAtFOI3zII/AAAAAAAACa8/Dr3_7cCN34c/s1600/HPIM2049.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607031103794171010" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yPtCP7YGeQs/TdAtFOI3zII/AAAAAAAACa8/Dr3_7cCN34c/s320/HPIM2049.JPG" /></span></a> <br /><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Mr <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">THQ</span> and I did a little <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">thrifting</span> yesterday. He found these books which were all priced for $1.00! Usually the quilting and craft book hunting at this thrift store is good but they are usually $2-$3 each. These were really a bargain! Each of them has a cute quilt or two in them. I like the can of worms title, don't you? She was making 2 1/2" strips before 2 1/2" strips were cool.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-j6rL9e6va1Y/TdAtE5tqNTI/AAAAAAAACas/dU8fUgPK6Ks/s1600/HPIM2051.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607031098311324978" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-j6rL9e6va1Y/TdAtE5tqNTI/AAAAAAAACas/dU8fUgPK6Ks/s320/HPIM2051.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> June is coming up quickly and there are 3 quilt shows in the area in June. Maybe quilt show immersion will inspire me to get going on my own things. I sure hope so. Talk to you soon.</span></div></div></div></div></div></div>kcenya1950http://www.blogger.com/profile/04662054102040674321noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697236576246276566.post-30227810269766005852011-05-08T19:56:00.005-06:002011-05-08T20:21:49.859-06:00Oh my goodness<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I am just amazed at how much time has passed since my last post. I simply must do better! Part of the problem is that I just have not produced much. I have been working on several things, doing some cutting, but am in one of those kind of funks when you just don't seem to know what to work on so don't get much done. But I realized tonight that I still had a few pics left from the Twin Falls show, now over a month ago, so let's have a look and finish off that show.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Always love a log cabin. That's what I have been working on, right -- the big one. And it reminds me, have you seen the new magazine "Primitive Quilts and Projects?". I looked for it locally but finally had to break down and subscribe. There is a super log cabin in the first issue. Paper pieced because the logs appear to finish at 3/4". I refuse to paper piece but using bigger strips and trimming every round works too for narrow logs. </span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wC-MyBB3PUc/TcdLYeM6XHI/AAAAAAAACak/wpr6lFtcl4U/s1600/HPIM2013.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604531145082035314" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wC-MyBB3PUc/TcdLYeM6XHI/AAAAAAAACak/wpr6lFtcl4U/s320/HPIM2013.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> But I digress. Here is a great sampler. I am just a sucker for red and greens.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iuvK0o6_1qQ/TcdLXoStIkI/AAAAAAAACac/uPKgZNY2aTU/s1600/HPIM2019.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604531130610819650" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iuvK0o6_1qQ/TcdLXoStIkI/AAAAAAAACac/uPKgZNY2aTU/s320/HPIM2019.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Here are a couple of little applique blocks. These were up high and a tall person saw me trying to take the pics and offered to take them for me so you get a head on view, not the from the bottom up you would have had to settle for if I had taken them. Butterflies are not my favourite but I love the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">flowers</span> and look at that button caterpillar! Cute, cute cute.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HboXqtuO5YY/TcdLXbhFesI/AAAAAAAACaU/GzttJVqOW5E/s1600/HPIM2012.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604531127181474498" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HboXqtuO5YY/TcdLXbhFesI/AAAAAAAACaU/GzttJVqOW5E/s320/HPIM2012.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Love the happy watering can.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HeRoxdrsqqQ/TcdLXKoIZyI/AAAAAAAACaM/s4D_Da2r07Y/s1600/HPIM2011.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604531122647623458" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HeRoxdrsqqQ/TcdLXKoIZyI/AAAAAAAACaM/s4D_Da2r07Y/s320/HPIM2011.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> And I love flags. This is a different flag treatment. I don't think I have seen one like this before. Look, two colour coordinated pictures -- wonder how I managed that?<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1gAr6jzQYlo/TcdLW0JVYeI/AAAAAAAACaE/B0Xy91V8woY/s1600/HPIM2008.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604531116612870626" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1gAr6jzQYlo/TcdLW0JVYeI/AAAAAAAACaE/B0Xy91V8woY/s320/HPIM2008.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Nice colours I think.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Yb3VGMH86Hc/TcdK7x1kVhI/AAAAAAAACZ8/ByjrT9NboLw/s1600/HPIM2004.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604530652136625682" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Yb3VGMH86Hc/TcdK7x1kVhI/AAAAAAAACZ8/ByjrT9NboLw/s320/HPIM2004.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I have now done 1 stitchery. And I have piping pinned to it to make a little pillow. But it's still waiting like that. I need to do more so I could have something like this little snowman.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-U2bE5blcnAs/TcdK7t4MCXI/AAAAAAAACZ0/7z9wF04lRXQ/s1600/HPIM2002.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604530651073874290" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-U2bE5blcnAs/TcdK7t4MCXI/AAAAAAAACZ0/7z9wF04lRXQ/s320/HPIM2002.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> This is the quilt he came from.<br /><br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ueX0GsNqPek/TcdK7cKoSYI/AAAAAAAACZs/MruVcWalyGM/s1600/HPIM2001.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604530646319384962" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ueX0GsNqPek/TcdK7cKoSYI/AAAAAAAACZs/MruVcWalyGM/s320/HPIM2001.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Now this quilt was really different. I have a big jar of labels I have been collecting for years. One of these days I will do something with them. I am glad I have been saving them since they are rapidly disappearing from clothing. I like the fact that there is no scratchy label at the back of my neck but I do miss how cute or pretty some labels were. <br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EddtnmQs9dg/TcdK6m06x7I/AAAAAAAACZk/hDXa0AlqQso/s1600/HPIM1996.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604530632001243058" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EddtnmQs9dg/TcdK6m06x7I/AAAAAAAACZk/hDXa0AlqQso/s320/HPIM1996.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">You are probably wondering why I am talking labels when this is a selvage quilt. But look, it has <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Neiman</span> Marcus ribbon -- almost a label. Certainly label like, right? And of course you know I am now cutting selvage strips, too. I have a bucket full for some future something.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-I-1y6E4djws/TcdK6Sc_2SI/AAAAAAAACZc/b04twzks29k/s1600/HPIM1995.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604530626532202786" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-I-1y6E4djws/TcdK6Sc_2SI/AAAAAAAACZc/b04twzks29k/s320/HPIM1995.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I like the colours in this one. And stars are always great. And this is double stars. I think this is a Miss Rosie pattern. I like Carrie Nelson patterns -- great for scrap quilts.<br /></span><br /><div><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8X3bLj2xcTo/TcdKbg4dljI/AAAAAAAACZM/-CcmyRDXxnI/s1600/HPIM1994.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604530097829549618" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8X3bLj2xcTo/TcdKbg4dljI/AAAAAAAACZM/-CcmyRDXxnI/s320/HPIM1994.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> A bigger piece of it.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1QaUgnKLH-o/TcdKbZ5vxQI/AAAAAAAACZE/jY35TNqpAnc/s1600/HPIM1993.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604530095955887362" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1QaUgnKLH-o/TcdKbZ5vxQI/AAAAAAAACZE/jY35TNqpAnc/s320/HPIM1993.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> And bigger still. I must have really liked this one! I like the border, too. Lots of half square <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">triangles</span> in this one! So what method do you use? I have used <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Thangles</span> but usually I cut them 7/8" bigger, draw the line and sew on both sides of it. Kind of lots of steps but they come out okay I think.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YtKuRuxjHwA/TcdKa26X8VI/AAAAAAAACY8/GGncpKZTDXg/s1600/HPIM1992.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604530086563279186" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YtKuRuxjHwA/TcdKa26X8VI/AAAAAAAACY8/GGncpKZTDXg/s320/HPIM1992.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Blue, blue, blue. But stars.<br /><br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PT39NblSrBs/TcdKaS-A0tI/AAAAAAAACY0/ZxkZ2rTcKMk/s1600/HPIM1991.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604530076914864850" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PT39NblSrBs/TcdKaS-A0tI/AAAAAAAACY0/ZxkZ2rTcKMk/s320/HPIM1991.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Now this one is more than stars. This is just <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">focused</span> on one part of the quilt.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2j17TtjLTqA/TcdKDh7jGKI/AAAAAAAACYs/hFeU9BKkEJY/s1600/HPIM1990.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604529685794068642" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2j17TtjLTqA/TcdKDh7jGKI/AAAAAAAACYs/hFeU9BKkEJY/s320/HPIM1990.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> See, it's a row by row. With chubby little snowmen! And a farm. I love this. Anyone know the pattern?<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Emj4ngaHKL4/TcdKDRuTPiI/AAAAAAAACYk/Y2_aGIaGNt0/s1600/HPIM1989.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604529681443536418" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Emj4ngaHKL4/TcdKDRuTPiI/AAAAAAAACYk/Y2_aGIaGNt0/s320/HPIM1989.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> And speaking of farms.... well, barns at least.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1baNSgLFQUo/TcdKDKlZjeI/AAAAAAAACYc/IzNuTMbsrww/s1600/HPIM1988.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604529679527153122" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1baNSgLFQUo/TcdKDKlZjeI/AAAAAAAACYc/IzNuTMbsrww/s320/HPIM1988.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> And one more, raggedy stars. </span><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rtY968uEbLs/TcdKCuIyVdI/AAAAAAAACYU/hXgUr3yJEN8/s1600/HPIM1987.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604529671890949586" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rtY968uEbLs/TcdKCuIyVdI/AAAAAAAACYU/hXgUr3yJEN8/s320/HPIM1987.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Another sampler.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mVP4sG6thXc/TcdKCTmluYI/AAAAAAAACYM/otJRyLNwfA8/s1600/HPIM1986.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604529664768194946" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mVP4sG6thXc/TcdKCTmluYI/AAAAAAAACYM/otJRyLNwfA8/s320/HPIM1986.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> And that's all of the quilt show pictures. Now I will have to get something done so I have something to share! I will be back son-- promise!</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>kcenya1950http://www.blogger.com/profile/04662054102040674321noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697236576246276566.post-8519876866214443632011-04-20T13:55:00.008-06:002011-04-20T14:22:51.564-06:00I am really excited about this<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Yes, I know, it doesn't look like much but I am amazed that it looks like it is supposed to! What is it? It is part of the border for the quilt I am working on. The quilt that is eating its way through my baskets of 1 1/2" strips like crazy. The pattern calls for 1 1/4" strips but whenever I make anything really strippy like log cabins I like to use a wider one and trim down. I get straighter strips that way. Besides I have more 1 1/2" strips hanging around.</span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nc8YXVjcp4E/Ta888eD1N8I/AAAAAAAACYE/Iu99F5w5kzA/s1600/HPIM2038.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597759871403767746" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nc8YXVjcp4E/Ta888eD1N8I/AAAAAAAACYE/Iu99F5w5kzA/s320/HPIM2038.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Here is a section of it closer up. <br /></span><br /><div><br /><div><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2F4xUfC0O3U/Ta87i9mf75I/AAAAAAAACXs/7aQqO7W2T3Q/s1600/HPIM2039.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597758333682446226" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2F4xUfC0O3U/Ta87i9mf75I/AAAAAAAACXs/7aQqO7W2T3Q/s320/HPIM2039.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> As I said I have been using strips like crazy. Many of the blocks are courthouse steps with the same fabrics on all 4 sides so I have been doing lots of sorting. Probably the tool I have been using most is my lint roller. Gathering and sorting all these strips that have been wrapping themselves around each other in baskets for months generates lots of little stray threads. And here in Boise it is still fleece season so I have to constantly roll myself. And the ironing board.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T2-FU3iD61E/Ta87imdhNsI/AAAAAAAACXk/SSXbfewhTIQ/s1600/HPIM2032.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597758327470765762" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T2-FU3iD61E/Ta87imdhNsI/AAAAAAAACXk/SSXbfewhTIQ/s320/HPIM2032.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> So what is it I am making? Not this. This is the reason I bought the book. When we went to the Twin Falls show we made a preliminary stop at The Gathering Place in Rupert. I mean Rupert is only 30 minutes or so farther east, so once you have invested the gas to get to Twin you may as well head for Rupert, right? I wasn't in much of a shopping mood that day, though. I only bought this book and 2 patterns the entire day. Anyway one of my traveling companions showed me this picture first thing at the shop and the book immediately had to be bought. Isn't it cute?<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DZMN5IpAclY/Ta86z4U12CI/AAAAAAAACXc/BMg5D6Wsk3U/s1600/HPIM2035.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597757524812355618" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DZMN5IpAclY/Ta86z4U12CI/AAAAAAAACXc/BMg5D6Wsk3U/s320/HPIM2035.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> But what I decided to make is the quilt on the back cover.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-259BcXfaLXQ/Ta86z78ygiI/AAAAAAAACXU/rw9CnPXpNA8/s1600/HPIM2033.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597757525785215522" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-259BcXfaLXQ/Ta86z78ygiI/AAAAAAAACXU/rw9CnPXpNA8/s320/HPIM2033.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I am truly in love with it. Now, mine will not be quite so brown as I am using a variety of dark strips. And I am not going to do the stars. I don't think the quilt needs them. If you look closely around the edges you can see where the borders fit in. This is interesting construction. Instead of doing something like setting triangles you make the borders with graduated sizes of strips. I am glad I didn't have to do the math for this quilt! The thing that is amazing is that the seams in the 5 border strips that you sew together are supposed to be offset by 3/4" and mine are coming out just that way. <br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GXhu5UGeeBg/Ta86zq0oWCI/AAAAAAAACXM/ZZts_h36PQo/s1600/HPIM2034.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597757521187592226" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GXhu5UGeeBg/Ta86zq0oWCI/AAAAAAAACXM/ZZts_h36PQo/s320/HPIM2034.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">This quilt has many blocks. It has the courhouse step ones like I mentioned plus plenty of log cabins. The log cabins are random browns and golds. I didn't have alot of golds either in strips or in the stash so to call some of them gold is a bit of a stretch but I think it will work out.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ewVHpPg3-9g/Ta86zUu-LNI/AAAAAAAACXE/_dT1--zwheE/s1600/HPIM2036.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597757515258277074" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ewVHpPg3-9g/Ta86zUu-LNI/AAAAAAAACXE/_dT1--zwheE/s320/HPIM2036.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Here is the stack of blocks waiting to be laid out. You can see why this one is a strip eater, now can't you? I thought I would finish the borders before I started laying it out. I am anxious to see how it looks. <br /><br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iVLIOS45n9E/Ta86zZBN0RI/AAAAAAAACW8/4_N8RjFO1EI/s1600/HPIM2037.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597757516408541458" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iVLIOS45n9E/Ta86zZBN0RI/AAAAAAAACW8/4_N8RjFO1EI/s320/HPIM2037.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Stay tuned. Oh, and there are more pics from the Twin show. I just thought it was time to show you that yes, I really have been sewing!</span> <br /><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>kcenya1950http://www.blogger.com/profile/04662054102040674321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697236576246276566.post-54633895701877905642011-04-16T12:07:00.005-06:002011-04-16T12:55:11.470-06:00One thing that happens<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">when you post</span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">quilt show pics in multiple erratic posts is you can't remember what was already posted. I have to keep looking back at the last post. Oh, well, a small thing. Here we are back at the Twin Falls show, I thought this was a really unique basket quilt.</span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-H3VP5Lu9Wac/TangRr79nDI/AAAAAAAACWs/bjxo-YS8Ixs/s1600/HPIM2021.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596250606441176114" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-H3VP5Lu9Wac/TangRr79nDI/AAAAAAAACWs/bjxo-YS8Ixs/s320/HPIM2021.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I guess I should have taken pictures of all the baskets but I only took a few favourites. </span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L7dfxlFocQk/TanfaA45rzI/AAAAAAAACWk/LJvL2pzjuyQ/s1600/HPIM2022.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596249649992806194" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L7dfxlFocQk/TanfaA45rzI/AAAAAAAACWk/LJvL2pzjuyQ/s320/HPIM2022.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I love the flag as basket on this block. </span><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iJOdd8YyVhc/TanfZ-zfubI/AAAAAAAACWc/KXFV_6cr7UE/s1600/HPIM2023.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596249649433262514" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iJOdd8YyVhc/TanfZ-zfubI/AAAAAAAACWc/KXFV_6cr7UE/s320/HPIM2023.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> And I like sunflowers. Isn't it funny how things go in and out of style. I remember when it was mushrooms. Geese, owls, all kinds of things have been the thing. Recently it seems to be butterflies. Oh, and crows. Like right here. </span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-n99Ti6Ne2f0/TanfZo-KIbI/AAAAAAAACWU/B7gloEjs6OY/s1600/HPIM2024.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596249643572404658" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-n99Ti6Ne2f0/TanfZo-KIbI/AAAAAAAACWU/B7gloEjs6OY/s320/HPIM2024.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I haven't the slightest idea why I took a picture of the middle of this quilt only. Maybe because I thought it was a great use of scraps. </span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3PjfZgDlj1E/TanfZGwVUAI/AAAAAAAACWM/F0SlR00ZPDA/s1600/HPIM2025.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596249634387611650" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3PjfZgDlj1E/TanfZGwVUAI/AAAAAAAACWM/F0SlR00ZPDA/s320/HPIM2025.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> This one is just plain cute. </span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xSohISGNEoY/TanfY8Jq7DI/AAAAAAAACWE/TbnL95cJUsc/s1600/HPIM2026.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596249631541095474" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xSohISGNEoY/TanfY8Jq7DI/AAAAAAAACWE/TbnL95cJUsc/s320/HPIM2026.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> This one is simple -- I see this bordered square everywhere especially on the "modern" blogs. This was Sandy Gervais fabric from last Christmas or maybe the Christmas before. Since I am currently over attracted to lime green I liked the quilt. I don't own this fabric though so it must have been readily available before my lime green crush. </span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RYBUtzQ9mrM/TanbzMgdQvI/AAAAAAAACVU/uR_xUn5-PTA/s1600/HPIM2027.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596245684561724146" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RYBUtzQ9mrM/TanbzMgdQvI/AAAAAAAACVU/uR_xUn5-PTA/s320/HPIM2027.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Here is another that is just plain cute. And unusual to find a really cute little boy quilt. And it isn't cars or trucks or construction equipment!</span> <br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-e6s6M9CHzp8/TanbySd18TI/AAAAAAAACVM/rcaBwlg1zzk/s1600/HPIM2028.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596245668981502258" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-e6s6M9CHzp8/TanbySd18TI/AAAAAAAACVM/rcaBwlg1zzk/s320/HPIM2028.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Here is another mystery photo. </span><br /><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">This is just not a quilt I would ever make. Maybe it was the use of the sampler squares as the border around the center medallion. Maybe it looked much different in person. In the pic the background colours go a little funny to me -- too many grayish ones perhaps? This quilter did a lot of work for this quilt, that's for sure. The center medallion has tons of pieces. And then to add applique on top of that!</span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NFzW9I9UHxk/Tanbx1XrbeI/AAAAAAAACVE/JJjo81y_ZcI/s1600/HPIM2029.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596245661171019234" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NFzW9I9UHxk/Tanbx1XrbeI/AAAAAAAACVE/JJjo81y_ZcI/s320/HPIM2029.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Although I don't own much in the way of thirties fabric I find I am always drawn to quilts made with them at shows. Maybe I should rethink my non use of them. This has to do I am sure with my split colour personality. Do you have one of those? On the one hand I love the dark primitive colours and on the other I love the clear crayon colours. They are not really reconcilable colour palettes. </span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_ghL9BcI6GM/TanbxmtnmyI/AAAAAAAACU8/yL9YlsTfzsY/s1600/HPIM2031.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596245657236511522" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_ghL9BcI6GM/TanbxmtnmyI/AAAAAAAACU8/yL9YlsTfzsY/s320/HPIM2031.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Here is the whole quilt that basket is from. I like the long rectangular baskets and I really like the squared off flowers. It is just a very happy quilt. Interesting sashing treatment don't you think? You don't see alot of quilts where the sashing crosses like that. I have made one or two. It is not my favourite way to do it. But I do like the yellow colour here. </span><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-g6TYf-FAKlk/TanbxbeaT5I/AAAAAAAACU0/LxCLYc2jKJY/s1600/HPIM2030.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596245654219935634" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-g6TYf-FAKlk/TanbxbeaT5I/AAAAAAAACU0/LxCLYc2jKJY/s320/HPIM2030.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> None of my comments are meant to cast negative aspersions on the quilts or quilters. I was rereading this and realized I perhaps sounded too negative. Everyone likes different things and has a different eye. And that is a good thing! I love looking at quilts whether they are to my taste or not and appreciate every quilter who has the nerve to put her quilt in a show for others to see!</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I had a question from a commenter whose email address was invisible to me. The Christmas quilt in the last post is in the book "Tis the Season" by Jeanne Large &amp; Shelley Wicks. I still haven't pulled the greens as I am knee deep in another project. Till next time. </span><br /><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>kcenya1950http://www.blogger.com/profile/04662054102040674321noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697236576246276566.post-50756800617084209972011-04-03T08:12:00.006-06:002011-04-03T09:27:24.297-06:00One of my favourite quotes<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">is from Ralph Waldo Emerson and it goes like this: "Inconsistency is no disgrace." Went to the Twin Falls quilt show yesterday. It is held every other year and I have never been before. It is pretty big and they had quite a few really nice quilts. I took a bunch of pictures that I will share over the next few posts. What you will notice, and what I just love, is there was no consistency as to where they put the signs on the quilts. Some on the left, some on the right, even some on the bottom. Yeah!</span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">First up we have some detail from a large quilt. I love the colours in this one. And the log cabin borders. First some little chicks.</span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aZyaxyd76eQ/TZiN7S1umeI/AAAAAAAACUo/AAXwDGTZAUE/s1600/HPIM2016.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591374987189459426" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aZyaxyd76eQ/TZiN7S1umeI/AAAAAAAACUo/AAXwDGTZAUE/s320/HPIM2016.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Then a flower and bee. look at that bee. Isn't she cute? I love the way the quilting kind of goes around the flower and leaves. </span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3zFQgJgLnXo/TZiN7MHGKRI/AAAAAAAACUg/nz-6BAl-vag/s1600/HPIM2017.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591374985383258386" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3zFQgJgLnXo/TZiN7MHGKRI/AAAAAAAACUg/nz-6BAl-vag/s320/HPIM2017.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Here is the whole thing. yes, basically it is a chicken quilt. Look at that happy dancing chicken in blue to the left of the main block. </span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AONZhB40gw4/TZiN615KqLI/AAAAAAAACUY/sTt3uJB_qn4/s1600/HPIM2014.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591374979419252914" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AONZhB40gw4/TZiN615KqLI/AAAAAAAACUY/sTt3uJB_qn4/s320/HPIM2014.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Oh, one more, here is the detail of the main block. </span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YPtqqZXcL9U/TZiN6iW8NDI/AAAAAAAACUQ/mBDsmLuDhdA/s1600/HPIM2015.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591374974175425586" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YPtqqZXcL9U/TZiN6iW8NDI/AAAAAAAACUQ/mBDsmLuDhdA/s320/HPIM2015.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Then this Christmas one. I have this book. Makes me want to go start pulling greens right away. The stockings were sewn down with blanket stitch that was thick. I think it had been done with perle cotton. I will have to experiment with my machine to see if it can blanket stitch with perle cotton. Because you know I wouldn't want to do it by hand. It was really cute, though, so it could/might be worth the hand work. </span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-V7sxVfT77eg/TZiN6QJAniI/AAAAAAAACUI/mQDVeOi_ecs/s1600/HPIM2007.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591374969285156386" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-V7sxVfT77eg/TZiN6QJAniI/AAAAAAAACUI/mQDVeOi_ecs/s320/HPIM2007.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I thought this one was really cute. (You are noticing the signs, aren't you? So far we have right, left, and right again.) </span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zA0cr-H8plg/TZiM-aQ8MAI/AAAAAAAACUA/OLdN_rG14NA/s1600/HPIM2005.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591373941210624002" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zA0cr-H8plg/TZiM-aQ8MAI/AAAAAAAACUA/OLdN_rG14NA/s320/HPIM2005.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> And the bear family album. I think I have seen this one before. Two of the people (out of 4) in the car to the show had made this one. That's pretty amazing don't you think? </span><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8_aYesh7rnA/TZiM-A-cPhI/AAAAAAAACT4/HZAvcaW0_Us/s1600/HPIM1997.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591373934422146578" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8_aYesh7rnA/TZiM-A-cPhI/AAAAAAAACT4/HZAvcaW0_Us/s320/HPIM1997.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Here is a close up. I picked this block because the Atlanta Braves are my favourite BB team even though I have never lived in Atlanta. </span><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XJo-CqzeX5M/TZiM91GshxI/AAAAAAAACTw/l7p7KDYcab8/s1600/HPIM1998.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591373931235542802" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XJo-CqzeX5M/TZiM91GshxI/AAAAAAAACTw/l7p7KDYcab8/s320/HPIM1998.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I love this Halloween one. The RIP tombstone that was fussy cut and put in the </span><br /><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">center star looks great I think, I really like the addition of purple and lime green to the traditional black and orange </span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Halloween palette that has occurred over the past few years.</span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qRB6u-rQPw0/TZiM9rZ_A1I/AAAAAAAACTo/dS6j4fFgzCg/s1600/HPIM1999.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591373928632091474" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qRB6u-rQPw0/TZiM9rZ_A1I/AAAAAAAACTo/dS6j4fFgzCg/s320/HPIM1999.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I have this pattern. I have had it for years. I was going to make it for my granddaughter long ago before she had a little brother and certainly before she was 10! I like the clear colours in this one. Better than the pastels that are shown on the pattern pic. I think after seeing this one I may make it with this brighter tonality. </span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ta98ttNhCic/TZiM9jMTW_I/AAAAAAAACTg/zt5j5pHZooc/s1600/HPIM2000.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591373926427220978" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ta98ttNhCic/TZiM9jMTW_I/AAAAAAAACTg/zt5j5pHZooc/s320/HPIM2000.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Wow, just out of these few pictures there are two I have the patterns for and that I would like to make. That's one way to judge the success of a show I guess. And it is the first one of the season around here. That's a happy thought. There will be more pictures to share in the next few posts. </span><br /><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>kcenya1950http://www.blogger.com/profile/04662054102040674321noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697236576246276566.post-38174198948733181222011-04-01T14:49:00.007-06:002011-04-01T15:17:14.208-06:00Homespun plaids<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">are really something I should like better than I do. Since I love primitive quilts you would think they would really appeal to me. And I like them when other people use them. But when I do, something just doesn't click. I was having some difficulty deciding what to do next so I pulled out a Kim Diehl book and started in on my homespun stash. </span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6iH4fgv5eVo/TZY7yThT-FI/AAAAAAAACSw/xbdDt9asBXM/s1600/HPIM1985.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590721722846541906" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6iH4fgv5eVo/TZY7yThT-FI/AAAAAAAACSw/xbdDt9asBXM/s320/HPIM1985.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I do have to say that it is much improved as the blocks go together. In fact I might just end up liking this quilt. I have a couple more rows to add on and then it will be time to decide on the border. And to decide if I will add the applique to the border. I thought I had some flowers and leaves already cut out that I didn't use on another quilt (notice a pattern here?) but I have looked everywhere and cannot find them. I just know I put them "in" something. Well, I have looked "in" everything and not found them. Once I put something "in" something when we were moving and found it 7 years later! So probably there will be no applique on the border. </span><br /><div><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-u1nNKTlydSs/TZY7cu-T_vI/AAAAAAAACSg/n1SpEzHg70A/s1600/HPIM1984.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590721352258813682" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-u1nNKTlydSs/TZY7cu-T_vI/AAAAAAAACSg/n1SpEzHg70A/s320/HPIM1984.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I did finish a little top from a Fig Tree book. I had a stack of fabric that looked really nice together I thought. Until I put the plain blocks between the houses. Then I did not like it together at all. </span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C_7rWvewnM8/TZY7cUs_bOI/AAAAAAAACSY/pOGWwRXVu_c/s1600/HPIM1977.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590721345206840546" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C_7rWvewnM8/TZY7cUs_bOI/AAAAAAAACSY/pOGWwRXVu_c/s320/HPIM1977.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Oops, pictures out of order so we will have a slight digression. Have you ever made 9 patch blocks this way? I just love it as I never would get the right lengths of strips to get enough of the right combinations of light and dark </span><br /><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">for the 3 strip wide pieces. I was always ending up with too much of the two dark with light in the middle and never enough of the two light with dak in the middle. This way you just do a two piece strip of one dark and one light and make an extra corner. I don't remember where I saw it but it is my go to method now.</span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-p7uDSUULfiw/TZY7cFuOvnI/AAAAAAAACSQ/qqpQdeYfarM/s1600/HPIM1979.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590721341185506930" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-p7uDSUULfiw/TZY7cFuOvnI/AAAAAAAACSQ/qqpQdeYfarM/s320/HPIM1979.JPG" /></span></a> <br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Kt_CIJK7wgc/TZY66DETSjI/AAAAAAAACSI/S9dynAZS9qc/s1600/HPIM1978.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590720756357220914" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Kt_CIJK7wgc/TZY66DETSjI/AAAAAAAACSI/S9dynAZS9qc/s320/HPIM1978.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1t6cbqdw5rA/TZY65hqN9YI/AAAAAAAACSA/Exh4YjhK4ZQ/s1600/HPIM1981.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590720747389449602" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1t6cbqdw5rA/TZY65hqN9YI/AAAAAAAACSA/Exh4YjhK4ZQ/s320/HPIM1981.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> For some reason blogger will not let me type in between those two pics. Well, the reason is probably that it has been just one of those weeks with nothing going the way it is supposed to. Anyway, I decided to try out the green silly string fabric between the blocks and liked it much better. And I really like the little checkerboard border. So this stack of fabrics with only one slight substitution really made a nice top I think. Of course I am partial to houses. </span><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Om5aO-kYbZ0/TZY65VfwOmI/AAAAAAAACR4/2fS2GlDv_rE/s1600/HPIM1980.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590720744124332642" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Om5aO-kYbZ0/TZY65VfwOmI/AAAAAAAACR4/2fS2GlDv_rE/s320/HPIM1980.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Usually I do not like the House of White Birches books. I am not quite sure why but there you have it. I went to a guild meeting last month and they were selling lots of old magazines for a quarter a piece. I bought a few called "Quilters World" because I had not seen them before. When I was looking through them when I got home I realized why -- they are from House of White Birches. Anyway, one of them had a quilt I liked with pretty large blocks so I pulled out another stack and started in on it. I love this Christmas tree print. I did not exactly follow the directions and I could not decide on a border. </span><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sNLSrJY3ctE/TZY65FsGJeI/AAAAAAAACRw/iN2Nd1yHoz4/s1600/HPIM1983.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590720739881133538" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sNLSrJY3ctE/TZY65FsGJeI/AAAAAAAACRw/iN2Nd1yHoz4/s320/HPIM1983.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> So it has remained borderless. It was fun to put together. Mr THQ doesn't like the acid green very much. I am not so sure myself! I wish it looked as good as it was fun to sew! </span><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M8uf_45J8-I/TZY64mSYWhI/AAAAAAAACRo/fiYrU_DkJ60/s1600/HPIM1982.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590720731451775506" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M8uf_45J8-I/TZY64mSYWhI/AAAAAAAACRo/fiYrU_DkJ60/s320/HPIM1982.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> There was a question in comments -- yay, I got some comments -- about the circle quilt on my last post. No, I did not use the WonderArc. I do not even know what that is. I traced circles around round things that were in my house and then cut them out. If you were to look really closely you would see that they are not exactly round. But with the dots and blanket stitching no one will ever know. At least that's the way I look at it. Others only see the flaws you point out, right, so keep your mouth shut and no one will see what looks like the biggest boo boo on the face of the earth. I am right about that, aren't I? </span><br /><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>kcenya1950http://www.blogger.com/profile/04662054102040674321noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697236576246276566.post-54976221253836777962011-03-16T14:36:00.006-06:002011-03-16T15:00:11.253-06:00Funny how things look different<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">when there is a big gap between the last time you touched something and a more recent time. First, though, here is this one all finished. I like it alot although it goes absolutely no where in my house.</span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A8-0Vvcj7QM/TYEgTQPQNMI/AAAAAAAACRg/VRDBJ5-2f8A/s1600/HPIM1967.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584780528064672962" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A8-0Vvcj7QM/TYEgTQPQNMI/AAAAAAAACRg/VRDBJ5-2f8A/s320/HPIM1967.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> It's just so happy! I was able to use a different colourway of the pink border for the back. I like that about it, too.<br /></span><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-H_WM2walwC4/TYEgSzZff0I/AAAAAAAACRY/7gXJDRJwQjM/s1600/HPIM1968.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584780520322989890" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-H_WM2walwC4/TYEgSzZff0I/AAAAAAAACRY/7gXJDRJwQjM/s320/HPIM1968.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Here is another one I finished. Here is its back. <br /></span><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-88V8FS_z9WE/TYEgSnSUWII/AAAAAAAACRQ/JXI5_IwDW5I/s1600/HPIM1972.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584780517071673474" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-88V8FS_z9WE/TYEgSnSUWII/AAAAAAAACRQ/JXI5_IwDW5I/s320/HPIM1972.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> And here is its front. It is a lap from fat quilt from when I was trying to use up my fat quarters. The pattern had multiple borders of the various strips like the sashing but I just didn't like it so I didn't do it that way. Quilters' license, right? These were all kind of deep colours -- not exactly jewel tones but approaching that. Mr THQ likes this one alot. I like it, too. I like the extra bits in the star points.<br /></span><div> </div><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I like the back, too. That back fabric is absolutely ancient. I bought it originally in 3 colourways. You will notice that one of them is blue. I guess it's time to explain my blue aversion. It's really a result of an overload of blue. My FIL could reupholster anything. We had an old couch that we had gotten cheap from friends that needed to be recovered. We lived in Reno at the time and I was walking past a store window of a kind of off the beaten path weird store and they had a bolt of upholstery fabric in the window. It was love at first sight! The fabric was basically royal blue with lots of rust and some kind of taupey brown in a southwestern pattern. I will have to look through old photos and see if I can find one that I can scan. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Anyway, he recovered that couch and a loveseat and from that moment on all my decorating had blue and orange in it. Of course the part I am leaving out is that the house in Reno had bright blue carpet -- royal blue -- I referred to it as Crisco can blue. We only lived in Reno that time for a couple of years but that couch stayed with us for a long time. I think it finally drowned in the great 1984 Tulsa Memorial Day flood that we got to participate in. Sort of a fitting ending, I guess.</span></div><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-G9XSaU2mNMU/TYEft0yPjAI/AAAAAAAACRA/BEE1YIZ1NQ0/s1600/HPIM1970.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584779885040077826" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-G9XSaU2mNMU/TYEft0yPjAI/AAAAAAAACRA/BEE1YIZ1NQ0/s320/HPIM1970.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> The blue and orange versions of these fabrics were in pillows along with lots of other blues and oranges. I never did use the taupe until this backing. Anyway, before he died FIL recovered the loveseat in a brown fabric which is a good thing!<br /></span><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Otm5KXZ93IU/TYEftj7s-bI/AAAAAAAACQ4/60BQp19T-2g/s1600/HPIM1973.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584779880516352434" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Otm5KXZ93IU/TYEftj7s-bI/AAAAAAAACQ4/60BQp19T-2g/s320/HPIM1973.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Boy, I am in a multiple colourway frame of mind aren't I? How strange. I didn't realize I did that so much. Anyway, the above two fabrics were ordered online as backing for the quilt that is coming up. I could not decide looking at my computer which wa the better colour. I ended up using the red but if I had it to do over I would definitely use the pink. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">This quilt was a kit from Fons &amp; Porter a long time ago. It has been waiting to be quilted for a while because I couldn't decide how to quilt it. I ended up using my walking foot which has spent lots of box time and not much machine time. I like the way it came out and will use the foot again I am sure. I tried to use only the fabrics that came in the kit even though I didn't like some of them AT ALL and as a whole it looks good. This was one of the first times I used a solid, too. Since then I have noticed lots of solids used in blogland, especially on contemporary quilts so I have started using them a little more. This is actually baby quilt size. <br /></span><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tPTATyt3-ME/TYEftQC936I/AAAAAAAACQw/yuayeN1F9Ss/s1600/HPIM1974.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584779875178110882" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tPTATyt3-ME/TYEftQC936I/AAAAAAAACQw/yuayeN1F9Ss/s320/HPIM1974.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Even though I have a couple more quilts that are pinned and ready to be quilted (yes, still including the monster) I decided it was time to do something new. Actually I was looking for something else and came across this kitty angel fabric and decided its time had come. Isn't it cute?<br /></span><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZFhuoqfvYpE/TYEfs7_fWKI/AAAAAAAACQo/2cZimdH5AbU/s1600/HPIM1976.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584779869794818210" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZFhuoqfvYpE/TYEfs7_fWKI/AAAAAAAACQo/2cZimdH5AbU/s320/HPIM1976.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Here is the finished top. I would have liked a slightly wider kitty angel fabric border but I didn't have enough to go any wider. It makes me smile, too.<br /></span><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RH-ShR5aydQ/TYEfshGzurI/AAAAAAAACQg/k8qYbG4zjV4/s1600/HPIM1975.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584779862577756850" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RH-ShR5aydQ/TYEfshGzurI/AAAAAAAACQg/k8qYbG4zjV4/s320/HPIM1975.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Now I guess it's time to get back to the quilting. I have another one that I am not sure how to quilt so that is my excuse. Is it working?</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>kcenya1950http://www.blogger.com/profile/04662054102040674321noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697236576246276566.post-31802201250537035302011-03-03T14:58:00.004-07:002011-03-03T15:34:44.222-07:00Favourite thingsI<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> was reading one of my all time favourite cooking blogs, </span><a href="http://www.melskitchencafe.com/"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Mel's Kitchen Cafe</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">, and noticed a section of favourite things. Related to cooking, of course. Well, I had just been thinking about a couple of my favourite things, quilting related, of course, and thought I would share them. This is the best seam ripper on the face of the earth. I love it so much I want to buy another one. If I could find it. I found another by Clover but it has a rougher tip -- not ball point I suppose -- and despite Mr THQ's best efforts at smoothing it out, it is, alas, not as good. But I am always searching.</span><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DR658lsFsP4/TXASnQVyM4I/AAAAAAAACQQ/osdZHCfFAqg/s1600/HPIM1960.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579980403922580354" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DR658lsFsP4/TXASnQVyM4I/AAAAAAAACQQ/osdZHCfFAqg/s320/HPIM1960.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> This is another. Although I certainly missed half of it in the picture. Oh, well. It is just a box with sections and I keep all my Bernina feet in it. They sit nicely protected and dust free. Which is important since dusting is not one of my highly developed skills.<br /></span><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AdNwL_kPcPM/TXASnHQV3vI/AAAAAAAACQI/1qDvwHIQ0vs/s1600/HPIM1962.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579980401483833074" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AdNwL_kPcPM/TXASnHQV3vI/AAAAAAAACQI/1qDvwHIQ0vs/s320/HPIM1962.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> And my baby scissors. They are out all the time when I am sewing, and go into their case when I am not.<br /></span><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dvm7-fPnnUU/TXASnIEHIAI/AAAAAAAACQA/W1g7ZeXqn-E/s1600/HPIM1964.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579980401700970498" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dvm7-fPnnUU/TXASnIEHIAI/AAAAAAAACQA/W1g7ZeXqn-E/s320/HPIM1964.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> My quilting gloves. They are wonderful for free motion because they grip so well. And they are small. I have small hands so it is hard to find gloves that fit. I actually wore through my first pair. Then I discovered that the company for which I worked carried these in some of the locations. But not in small, of course. I got them to order me an entire dozen in my size! So as long as I can find them when I need them I am set for life.<br /></span><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UO53nqox56Q/TXASmw1bkDI/AAAAAAAACP4/UyR9QurFVPo/s1600/HPIM1963.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579980395465379890" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UO53nqox56Q/TXASmw1bkDI/AAAAAAAACP4/UyR9QurFVPo/s320/HPIM1963.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Now I know I have mentioned this staple puller before. I use it to close the safety pins when I am pin basing the layers together. It works much better than spoons or anything else I have found. It was a freebie. Fortunately I have a few of them, too.<br /></span><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Sv-uR60xdb4/TXASUs_oZyI/AAAAAAAACPw/vIxjpik0JLc/s1600/HPIM1961.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579980085196777250" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Sv-uR60xdb4/TXASUs_oZyI/AAAAAAAACPw/vIxjpik0JLc/s320/HPIM1961.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> And clips for holding the binding on. I knew these as pin curl clips when I was a kid but now they are sold as binding clips and they are terrific. As you know I sew all my bindings on by machine and these are hold it all in place.</span> <div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tc3Uki_jI_Y/TXASUafu1qI/AAAAAAAACPo/4UHbHpkrdSA/s1600/HPIM1959.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579980080231143074" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tc3Uki_jI_Y/TXASUafu1qI/AAAAAAAACPo/4UHbHpkrdSA/s320/HPIM1959.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> My bobbin storage case. This is ancient. I bought enough bobbins to fill it plus one more that is in the machine. When I get ready to quilt I wind a whole row of the colour I am using. It saves lots of time, oh, and, dust free!<br /></span><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-B286erytVak/TXAST3XIPbI/AAAAAAAACPg/_fjS_8xr9Q4/s1600/HPIM1958.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579980070799818162" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-B286erytVak/TXAST3XIPbI/AAAAAAAACPg/_fjS_8xr9Q4/s320/HPIM1958.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> And my favourite ruler. 6.5 by 18.5. Creative Grids. I don't like Omnigrid too much because of the yellow lines. This is my second one. I wore the first one out. Absolutely the perfect size for me.<br /></span><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hP5yHeDyFE8/TXAST1k4WcI/AAAAAAAACPY/4ECTSTZCfPc/s1600/HPIM1957.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579980070320626114" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hP5yHeDyFE8/TXAST1k4WcI/AAAAAAAACPY/4ECTSTZCfPc/s320/HPIM1957.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> While I was thinking about favourite things and thinking about what I might make next once my quilting binge is finished I thought about how I love these types of patterns, buy them often, but rarely make them. I need to rectify that. There is one I finished in the to be quilted stack so you will see it soon. But these are all sooooooo darn cute I need to stop buying and start making. Or keep buying and start making. That is probably more likely.<br /></span><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tIRGMAnZVZc/TXAR81grOjI/AAAAAAAACPQ/H4asdInUowo/s1600/HPIM1955.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579979675165997618" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tIRGMAnZVZc/TXAR81grOjI/AAAAAAAACPQ/H4asdInUowo/s320/HPIM1955.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I have finished quilting some tops. This is a kind of Christmassy one. I like the yellow green colour with red. Not too prim but I like it.<br /></span><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IzY0mDHGpHg/TXAR7pxdpEI/AAAAAAAACPI/BSGeoPe1hW0/s1600/HPIM1954.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579979654835315778" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IzY0mDHGpHg/TXAR7pxdpEI/AAAAAAAACPI/BSGeoPe1hW0/s320/HPIM1954.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> And this one was a charm pack plus some yardage. Minnick and Simpson. I like it okay but you know I think it is a little boring to only use one fabric line. For the flag room.<br /></span><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DDeqV5_jIcM/TXAR7jbeoyI/AAAAAAAACPA/kdOMqCAWCJc/s1600/HPIM1953.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579979653132493602" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DDeqV5_jIcM/TXAR7jbeoyI/AAAAAAAACPA/kdOMqCAWCJc/s320/HPIM1953.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> And this one was to make use of a fat quarter I really liked at one time. Now, not so much. Funny how that happens, isn't it?<br /></span><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dQZjjU7zIs4/TXAR7ZR9hlI/AAAAAAAACO4/ITgPmDbyGHc/s1600/HPIM1952.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579979650408220242" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dQZjjU7zIs4/TXAR7ZR9hlI/AAAAAAAACO4/ITgPmDbyGHc/s320/HPIM1952.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> And you probably remember this one because I took it apart and replaced some blocks because I was unhappy with it. It really is cute quilted and now I am ready for a boy baby to appear somewhere.<br /></span><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pJadyfcuKb0/TXARmQEcyFI/AAAAAAAACOw/3bctRxZUcvM/s1600/HPIM1951.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579979287158376530" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pJadyfcuKb0/TXARmQEcyFI/AAAAAAAACOw/3bctRxZUcvM/s320/HPIM1951.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> And another little one. I like these colours. It is already in my bedroom because the colours are perfect for in there.<br /></span><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bjnRpwPhDlA/TXARl0HFLNI/AAAAAAAACOo/B6dhMs9bckY/s1600/HPIM1950.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579979279653219538" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bjnRpwPhDlA/TXARl0HFLNI/AAAAAAAACOo/B6dhMs9bckY/s320/HPIM1950.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> And I love, love, love how this one came out. It is mostly a bunch of half yards that I thought went together really well. Oh, and a fabric I bought in Charlotte last time I visited my daughter. <br /></span><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4FKs7gURNLo/TXARl-EqMVI/AAAAAAAACOg/-lpLzT6IR10/s1600/HPIM1965.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579979282327417170" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4FKs7gURNLo/TXARl-EqMVI/AAAAAAAACOg/-lpLzT6IR10/s320/HPIM1965.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> And look at the back. It looks so great with it. And the back is from JoAnn's. Lots of my backs come from JoAnn's because of cost but this one is cute and perfect. </span><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DVkAXznr6as/TXARlhU2GiI/AAAAAAAACOY/e8tzpU4UEFY/s1600/HPIM1966.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579979274610678306" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DVkAXznr6as/TXARlhU2GiI/AAAAAAAACOY/e8tzpU4UEFY/s320/HPIM1966.JPG" /></span></a></div><div><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">And you just saw this one. Another quick from start to finish!</span></div><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hJKq-6VboBY/TXARlYM52JI/AAAAAAAACOQ/bkiXandIWZ0/s1600/HPIM1956.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579979272161450130" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hJKq-6VboBY/TXARlYM52JI/AAAAAAAACOQ/bkiXandIWZ0/s320/HPIM1956.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Still a few more to quilt so best get going while the finishing bug is still active!</span> <div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>kcenya1950http://www.blogger.com/profile/04662054102040674321noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697236576246276566.post-69788547241937239992011-02-26T12:32:00.004-07:002011-02-26T13:10:20.786-07:00So I pinned and pinned<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">and this stack of tops and backs is still waiting to be pinned. And of course there are still tops that still need backs. I ran out of pins until we went to <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">JoAnn's</span> and used a coupon to get more. </span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ppNaYZeDC_c/TWlZapfpM-I/AAAAAAAACOI/l8KmNZzhKx4/s1600/HPIM1940.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578087927825118178" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ppNaYZeDC_c/TWlZapfpM-I/AAAAAAAACOI/l8KmNZzhKx4/s320/HPIM1940.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> But I decided that was enough pinning anyway. Here are the small to medium ones ready to go.<br /></span><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yl36f_VUfh0/TWlZaaPNqRI/AAAAAAAACOA/Rp-FCabCPq0/s1600/HPIM1939.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578087923729672466" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yl36f_VUfh0/TWlZaaPNqRI/AAAAAAAACOA/Rp-FCabCPq0/s320/HPIM1939.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> And the larger ones. A couple of these have been sitting waiting for a long time. Especially that big one on the bottom. Its time just has not come... yet.<br /></span><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n1NGx8xo2iY/TWlZaKhpxlI/AAAAAAAACN4/HDQfFPV4q1I/s1600/HPIM1938.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578087919512045138" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n1NGx8xo2iY/TWlZaKhpxlI/AAAAAAAACN4/HDQfFPV4q1I/s320/HPIM1938.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I pulled all my bindings from the various places they were tucked -- I had outgrown the binding drawer for sure! I think it is a good idea to make the bindings when completing the tops. Except when it is so long before the quilting I can't remember which binding goes with what. (Yes, I have tried to sew one meant for another onto the wrong one. But only once. So far...) I guess I need to pin post it notes to the bindings.<br /></span><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9omsYkD8hZM/TWlYpnUgA1I/AAAAAAAACNw/Zy5L0gI25OQ/s1600/HPIM1941.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578087085427917650" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9omsYkD8hZM/TWlYpnUgA1I/AAAAAAAACNw/Zy5L0gI25OQ/s320/HPIM1941.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Don't they look nice in their boxes? I just look <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">soooooooooo</span> efficient... ha ha ha! Or as my best friend when I lived in Rhode Island as a kid would say, "snicker, snicker, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">snacker</span>, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">snacker</span>, ha, ha, laugh, laugh, ho, ho, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">hee</span>, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">hee</span>." Amazing that sticks in my mind. Had to be 5<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">th</span> grade-<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">ish</span>!<br /></span><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lBknN00TM0o/TWlYpD9nYcI/AAAAAAAACNo/CR23Zs4VQ9o/s1600/HPIM1942.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578087075936690626" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lBknN00TM0o/TWlYpD9nYcI/AAAAAAAACNo/CR23Zs4VQ9o/s320/HPIM1942.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Anyway, while we were out we stopped at a thrift store and look what I found! What a lot of work, and so cute. I could do without the pearls but I love the little handle and the edging around the top.<br /></span><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sTuTB4e8Vsg/TWlYpKUZvAI/AAAAAAAACNg/MhToaosDGy8/s1600/HPIM1937.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578087077642877954" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sTuTB4e8Vsg/TWlYpKUZvAI/AAAAAAAACNg/MhToaosDGy8/s320/HPIM1937.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I also kind of delayed the quilting until I had finished this top. It was one of those stacks. The pattern I used did not call for a border but it looked wrong to me ending with such a light colour so I added one. Now it goes into the needs a back stack.<br /></span><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9W4vw9vk0fE/TWlYoz3AFyI/AAAAAAAACNY/UgggLDM6GPo/s1600/HPIM1944.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578087071613982498" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9W4vw9vk0fE/TWlYoz3AFyI/AAAAAAAACNY/UgggLDM6GPo/s320/HPIM1944.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> So, did I ever stop procrastinating and start quilting? Well, yes, I did. And wouldn't you know the first few I quilted had NO bindings in those bins! So you are not seeing them. You are seeing some that were quilted later that did have bindings in the bins. This was done from left over half square <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">triangles</span>. I really like the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">sashing</span> fabric. Kind of a nice light toasty colour background.<br /></span><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6K3QqkudAhk/TWlYCL8sv1I/AAAAAAAACNQ/kg7dgFW3TVg/s1600/HPIM1945.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578086408065433426" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6K3QqkudAhk/TWlYCL8sv1I/AAAAAAAACNQ/kg7dgFW3TVg/s320/HPIM1945.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Then you remember this one I am sure. I added some borders but I am still not in love with this fabric.<br /></span><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IgZeTCr588c/TWlYCF_QT5I/AAAAAAAACNI/dp86Ng-K6hE/s1600/HPIM1946.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578086406465539986" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IgZeTCr588c/TWlYCF_QT5I/AAAAAAAACNI/dp86Ng-K6hE/s320/HPIM1946.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> And this one. I know I just showed you the top. This is definitely record top to finished time! I didn't do such a good job on the picture, now did I? Oh, well.<br /></span><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vV5KfoSPiNU/TWlYByX2EOI/AAAAAAAACNA/OS4e-EZxCs4/s1600/HPIM1947.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578086401199968482" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vV5KfoSPiNU/TWlYByX2EOI/AAAAAAAACNA/OS4e-EZxCs4/s320/HPIM1947.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> This was made of leftovers as well. The quilt that it is leftovers of is waiting to be pinned. Someday you will see it. The main fabric is some I bought years and years ago when I was about to make a quilt for my MIL who did her house in oriental style. I ended up doing something different so this one sat and sat. I mean for like 10 years. I kind of like it with all these also uncharacteristic <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-error">florals</span>.<br /></span><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uNywfzcXWhw/TWlYBuZRERI/AAAAAAAACM4/MkRsGfSi-nw/s1600/HPIM1948.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578086400132190482" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uNywfzcXWhw/TWlYBuZRERI/AAAAAAAACM4/MkRsGfSi-nw/s320/HPIM1948.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I love this one. It was a panel and some coordinating fabric. I added the green border from my stash and I love the purple stripe border. I worked really hard to make the stripes all be at 90 degrees and straight, not my usual helte skelter scrappy style. Anf it came out cute, cute, cute I think.</span> <div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dCgREdPcf4A/TWlYBUlIhiI/AAAAAAAACMw/teS93V6JcUc/s1600/HPIM1949.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578086393202640418" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dCgREdPcf4A/TWlYBUlIhiI/AAAAAAAACMw/teS93V6JcUc/s320/HPIM1949.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I like the kitties. Mr <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-error">THQ</span> just told me he read an article that house cats can live to be 30 years old! Can you believe that? Ours seems to be feeling her age at 15 or 16 which I thought was the normal life expectancy. We keep having to put helper steps everywhere so she can get to where she used to jump up to. Of course she is not a true house cat as she does go outside all the time. Interesting, no?</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>kcenya1950http://www.blogger.com/profile/04662054102040674321noreply@blogger.com1